From: John H. Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Tue Jan 13 2009 - 11:40:37 CST
On Jan 13, 2009, at 5:51 AM, Karl Pentzlin wrote:
> This idea seems in fact to be noteworthy, while it must be accompanied
> by some principles.
> For instance, the price for the first two code points must be high
> enough
> (i.e. some USD X0,000) to engage a lawyer to formulate such
> principles in
> a way that neither the UTC nor ISO have to bother about legal
> questions
> in the future, and Microsoft and Apple must agree in fact to buy
> these code
> points for their well-known symbols which occur in the PUA of many
> fonts.
>
I can pretty much guarantee that Apple would not go along with such a
scheme. Apple has no real desire to have its logo interchanged in
plain text. (Which leaves the question—which I cannot answer—as to
why we continue to include it in our fonts.)
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John H. Jenkins
jenkins@apple.com
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