Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 10:14:55AM +0100, Julian Bradfield wrote:
> On 2011-07-15, Michael Everson <everson_at_evertype.com> wrote:
> > On 15 Jul 2011, at 17:03, Doug Ewell wrote:
> >
> >> 1. Graphic symbols for control characters are needed so writers can write about the control characters themselves using plain text.
> >
> > This does not seem so unreasonable. The RTL and LTR overrides
> > *function* on the text when inserted into text. So you can't use
> > those with glyphs in a font to represent for example the UCS
> > dotted-boxes-with-letters, because they are control characters and
> > will affect the text.
>
> Wouldn't it be more economical to encode a single UNICODE ESCAPE
> CHARACTER which forces the following character to be interpreted as a
> printable glyph rather than any control function?

I already thought about this but this would probably mean that
algorithms (like the Unicode BiDi Algorithm) would have to be changed.

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