Re: Code pages and Unicode

If same codes within PUA becomes standard for different purposes, how to get
both working using same font?
How to instruct text docs, what font if different fonts are used?

Sinnathurai

On 23 August 2011 20:00, Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham_at_ntlworld.com
> wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:18:56 -0700
> Ken Whistler <kenw_at_sybase.com> wrote:
>
> > How about Clause 12.5 of ISO/IEC 10646:
> >
> > <001B, 0025, 0040>
> >
> > You "escape" out of UTF-16 to ISO 2022, and then you can do whatever
> > the heck you want, including exchange and processing of complete
> > 4-byte forms, with all the billions of characters folks seem to think
> > they need.
>
> > Of course you would have to convince implementers to honor the ISO
> > 2022 escape sequence...
>
> Which they only need to if the text is in an ISO 2022 or similar
> context. Your idea does suggest that a pattern of
> <high><high><SO><low> would be reasonable. The shift-out code U+000E
> has no meaning as a Unicode character so it wouldn't be unreasonable to
> require a special check that one finds a full character if looking for
> a one-character string consisting only of U+000E. We could also have
> <high><high><SI><low> to gives the full *two* thousand million odd
> characters that would be resupported by UTF-32.
>
> Richard.
>
>
Received on Tue Aug 23 2011 - 14:55:50 CDT