Re: Accessing alternate glyphs from plain text (from Re: Draft Proposal to add Variation Sequences for Latin and Cyrillic letters)

From: William_J_G Overington (wjgo_10009@btinternet.com)
Date: Sat Aug 07 2010 - 06:56:28 CDT

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    Thank you for replying.
     
    On Friday 6 August 2010, Asmus Freytag <asmusf@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
     
    > What you mean are artistic or stylistic variants.
    >
    > These have certain problems, see here for an explanation:
    > http://www.unicode.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=221#p221
    >
    > A./
    > >   
     
    I have read and reread the forum post to which you refer.
     
    I cannot understand from that text, or otherwise at the time of writing this reply, why it would not be possible to have an alternate ending glyph for a letter e accessible from plain text using an advanced font technology font (for example, an OpenType font) using the two character sequence U+0065 U+FE0F.
     
    The specific design of an alternate ending e glyph would vary from font to font, yet that it is an alternate ending e would be clear: the encoding U+0065 U+FE0F would allow the intention that an alternate ending glyph for a letter e is requested to be carried within a plain text document.
     
    I accept that I might be missing something here. If so I would be happy to learn: at the moment, however, it still seems to me to be a good idea for an encoding.
     
    William Overington
     
    7 August 2010

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