Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

From: Michael Everson <everson_at_evertype.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:49:00 +0100

On 15 Jul 2011, at 18:26, Michael Everson wrote:

> What I see is a certain unreasonability reflecting a certain conservatism. Text about the Standard is important, and should be representable in an interchangeable way. Here { } is a Right to left override character. character. I want to talk about it in a way that is visible. Oops. I can't do it interchangeably.

Evidently the Unicode listserver stripped out U+202E here, which I had put between the {} where there is now a space.

See http://www.evertype.com/taisce/RTL-in-mail.png to see what I saw before I sent it.

What I wanted to do was interchange a SYMBOL FOR RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE.

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
Received on Fri Jul 15 2011 - 12:50:16 CDT

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