RE: N3412: Last Resort Pictures

From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Wed Apr 02 2008 - 10:26:04 CST

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    Michael Everson wrote:
    > >Since it is still April 1st in the US, then one might add that the
    > >characters for CJK Extension B, U+E02EC, and C, U+E02ED are
    > the same,
    > >and that it would be better to leave reserved spaces for other CJK
    > >extensions.
    >
    > Roadmapping the block beyond the BMP is something that needs
    > some discussion.

    And just modifyng your proposal to change its address from U+E02xx to U+E2xx
    (within PUAs of the BMP) will be enough to make interoperable last-resort
    fonts (with the addition of an internal font flag carring the PUA convention
    recognizable by renderers, that already have to manage lists of available
    fonts for fallbacks, it's just another final list for last-resort, where
    glyphs will be selected using internal code point remappings):

    * No policy change is needed in Unicode
    * No change needed in applications: they already have to know whever they
    accept PUAs or not
    * No new security risk



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