On 17/6/14 13:17, Wilson Page wrote:
If we are using ligatures in our apps, this isn't a problem. If
someone wants to remove PUA glyphs, great! But this has no reason to
block.
Right, if we're embedding the font in our apps rather than installing it
in the OS, then the PUA codepoints it includes aren't likely to be
exposed to the world in general. Still, it'd be cleaner to eliminate
them - especially if we expect this may be adopted by other authors as well.
Where is the script that generates this font maintained?
JK
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*Sent: *Tuesday, June 17, 2014 12:26:19 PM
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On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Wilson Page <wilsonp...@mozilla.com>
wrote:
> Maybe I'm late to the party, but I don't know what the PUA issue is?
Code points carry semantics. If you assign meaning to unassigned code
points through fonts, you have created a portability problem. That is,
the font is required to make sense out of the code points. This was a
problem with Emoji until it was standardized by Unicode. It would be
good to avoid doing that again.
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