Re: Character identities

[Michael Everson]

At 14:30 -0800 2002-10-28, Kenneth Whistler wrote:

 > >Hm, what if I want to make, say, snow capped Devanagari glyphs for my

 >hiking company in Nepal? Shouldn't I assign them to Unicode code points?

 That's what Private Use code positions are for.
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 Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com

Um, Michael, I think Anto'nio was talking about glyphs in a
decorative font, which should -- clearly -- just be mapped to
ordinary Unicode characters, via an ordinary Unicode cmap.

If they correspond to Unicode characters, yes, certainly.

Or do you think that the yellow, cursive, shadow-dropped, 3-D
letters "Getaway!" at:

http://www.trekking-in-nepal.com/

should also be represented by Private Use code positions? ;-)

Not at all. Fonts with images of igloos and yurts would use it, though, I would think.
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