From: William Overington (WOverington@ngo.globalnet.co.uk)
Date: Mon Feb 24 2003 - 11:56:54 EST
I have now produced a small font which contains my implementation of the
U+2614 Umbrella with rain drops character, which is one of the new
characters in the Unicode 4.0 beta documents.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/font7001.htm
I have had a go at producing a glyph for U+26A0 Warning sign but am finding
it a learning exercise to make it both crisply legible at 12 point yet
artistic at larger sizes within the tight constraint of a triangular
surround which must itself be clear. When producing the Unicode Standard,
is there a point size at which glyphs should be recognizably displayable
which is part of the criteria for characters? For example, is it regarded
as fine if some characters in some languages cannot be displayed clearly
below, say, 24 point? The map flags look interesting yet hopefully
straightforward and I hope to have a go at them too, also the high voltage
sign. The high voltage sign has the note "best glyph to be found" in the
beta document U40-2600.pdf and I wonder what is the significance of that
note please?
In the same U40-2600.pdf document are six Yijing monogram and digram
symbols. I wonder if someone could please say something about these
characters as to their meaning. Also, and this is I feel an important issue
for the beta process which could be of importance for other characters,
could someone please give some guidance as to how these characters should be
implemented as a piece of electronic type as there is no indication in
U40-2600.pdf as to how this set of six symbols should sit within a character
cell and relate to one another as to whether they should join to each other
or must be clear of each other when side by side and how they should line up
with text characters if in a font which contains many characters of various
types.
William Overington
24 February 2003
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