At 18:37 +0000 2002-02-11, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> - a cross-reference of characters whose associated glyphs are
> identical, whatever the font (applies to symbols and ``modifier
> letters'');
But the letter b isn't identical from font to font in Latin.
> - a cross-reference of characters whose associated glyphs could be
> confused by a non-technical user;
Out of the entire standard? Who's going to do that for free? :-)
> - a cross-reference of characters that may, in the absence of
> suitable fonts, be used as fallbacks for each other;
Unicode *is* intended to encode characters, not glyphs. But I can't
think of a character that can usefully represent any random Yi
character in the absence of suitable fonts apart from Apple's
brilliant Last Resort font, which I have seen working correctly in a
number of applications.
> - a map from characters to scripts;
Mark Davis has such a list.
> - a map from characters to languages.
Such as http://www.evertype.com/alphabets ?
>While much of this data may be deduced from the character names,
>you'll doubtless agree that many programmers would rather do something
>else than working out which characters exactly can appear in a Coptic
>context.
Yes, and I'm interested in that sort of task.
-- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
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