On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 20:34:20 +0200 "Janusz S. Bień via Unicode" <unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
> This is a typical but IMHO obsolete perspective. Fonts are for > *rendering*, new characters and variants are more and more often > needed for *input* of real life old texts with sufficient precision. If we're talking about glyphs which don't actually correspond to new characters, then that sounds like a good case for private use variation selectors. To quote Tully, "Abusus non tollit usum". Richard.