Philippe Verdy wrote on 07/20/2003 08:37:19 AM:
What would be the purpose of encoding these? I can't think of any.
They certainly don't need to be encoded as distinct characters to use
in a Last Resort font.
Mostly for documentation purpose
Since Unicode is not a glyph encoding
At 23:34 +0200 2003-07-19, Philippe Verdy wrote:
I'm still convinced that these glyphs are much more informative than
a default glyph showing a ?, a white rectangle, or a black losange
with a mirrored white ?...
Of course they are.
And Unicode also uses these glyphs in the index page for its
On Sunday, July 20, 2003 2:21 PM, Michael Everson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With SVG graphics containing character objects and drawing
primitives
I have no idea what this means. I used Fontographer.
SVG is a W3C-promoted standard for Scalable Vector Graphics,
based on a XML language, and
Philippe Verdy wrote on 07/19/2003 01:24:48 PM:
Isn't this page creating the idea for a specific block of
script-representative glyphs, that could be mapped in plane 14
as special supplementary characters ?
What would be the purpose of encoding these? I can't think of any. They
certainly
On Sunday, July 20, 2003 3:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Philippe Verdy wrote on 07/19/2003 01:24:48 PM:
Isn't this page creating the idea for a specific block of
script-representative glyphs, that could be mapped in plane 14
as special supplementary characters ?
At 08:20 -0500 2003-07-20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What would be the purpose of encoding these? I can't think of any.
They certainly don't need to be encoded as distinct characters to
use in a Last Resort font.
I am certain more people want to interchange the LITTER DUDE than
would want to
On Saturday, July 19, 2003, at 1:15 PM, Michael Everson wrote:
So fonts containing these glyphs could be designed to display these
glyphs, in a way similar to the current assignment of control
pictures.
Um, that's what the Last Resort font does, outside of Unicode encoding
space. (I don't
On Sunday, July 20, 2003, at 7:37 AM, Philippe Verdy wrote:
Mostly for documentation purpose, but also in most system that want to
be more informative to users missing a font for a particular script.
Michael also judged it to be useful enough to create such a font for
Apple, and Apple thought
What would be the purpose of encoding these? I can't think of any.
They certainly don't need to be encoded as distinct characters to use
in a Last Resort font.
Mostly for documentation purpose,
Why bother to encode them as distinct characters? For purposes of
documentation isn't a good
At 09:56 -0600 2003-07-20, John H. Jenkins wrote:
No, it uses the acutal Unicode characters, and just has a huge cmap
that maps everything in Unicode to the glyph for its block.
That is just so cool. :-)
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
On 20/07/2003 06:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Philippe Verdy wrote on 07/19/2003 01:24:48 PM:
Isn't this page creating the idea for a specific block of
script-representative glyphs, that could be mapped in plane 14
as special supplementary characters ?
What would be the purpose of
On Saturday, July 19, 2003 1:55 PM, Michael Everson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hm. See http://developer.apple.com/fonts/LastResortFont/ where it
shows glyphs for illegal characters (FFFE/ etc.) as well as
undefined characters (valid code positions which have not been
assigned). I thought
At 20:24 +0200 2003-07-19, Philippe Verdy wrote:
Isn't this page creating the idea for a specific block of
script-representative glyphs, that could be mapped in plane 14 as
special supplementary characters ?
Good heavens, no.
It's one thing for me to update this font regularly for Apple when
On Saturday, July 19, 2003 9:15 PM, Michael Everson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So fonts containing these glyphs could be designed to display these
glyphs, in a way similar to the current assignment of control
pictures.
Um, that's what the Last Resort font does, outside of Unicode
encoding
Apple's version of the Last Resort font is a (relatively) normal font.
It just has a cmap that maps lots and lots of characters to the same
glyph. :-)
Deborah Goldsmith
Manager, Fonts / Unicode Liaison
Apple Computer, Inc.
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On Saturday, July 19, 2003, at 12:15 PM, Michael
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