From: John Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Mon Jan 19 2004 - 15:07:34 EST
On Jan 19, 2004, at 12:14 PM, Dean Snyder wrote:
> But now that I know that it is already part of the model for some
> scripts
> in Unicode and is being considered for further use, as in Han and
> Hebrew,
> I question whether this is the technical hair-brained, off-the-wall
> idea
> some have tried to make it out to be.
>
It use in Han is/will be restricted to cases where a base character can
have multiple glyphic forms which some people may want to distinguish
in plain text. In all cases where variation selectors are being used,
it's because the underlying *identity* of the character is constant,
but its particular glyph cannot be determined fully by context and
font/font settings.
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John H. Jenkins
jenkins@apple.com
jhjenkins@mac.com
http://homepage..mac.com/jhjenkins/
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