Re: (Re: Unicode mapping table need help) Euro sign encoding

From: John Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Wed Jun 09 1999 - 12:04:55 EDT


John Cowan wrote:

> Peter_Constable@sil.org wrote:
>
>> Granted that this is a violation of Unicode conformance.
>
> Not at all. Unicode does not define U+0080, and anyway there is
> no reason why multiple Unicode characters can't be rendered with
> the same glyph, in fact it's expected in cases like LATIN CAPITAL
> A WITH RING ABOVE and ANGSTROM SIGN.

Au contraire, Unicode *does* define U+0080 -- it's a control code of
undefined specific interpretation. Rendering two characters with the same
glyph is one thing, but imposing the semantics "alternate euro" on the
character is quite something else.

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John H. Jenkins
jenkins@apple.com
tseng@blueneptune.com
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