On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 16:30, Keith Packard wrote:
> Let me rephrase the question in the context of this discussion -- in 
> attempting to identify which languages a given font is suitable for, I 
> believe I shouldn't expect fonts designed for HKSCS to support the non-BMP 
> encodings, and so shouldn't exclude fonts missing non-BMP glyphs as 
> unsuitable for zh-hk documents.

Agreed. It would take a while before fonts that cover non-BMP glyphs
appear on the market.

> A secondary question is whether I should 
> check the PUA entries; I believe I probably shouldn't, and let the zh-hk 
> support rest on whether the font covers the non-PUA BMP subset of HKSCS.

This is probably a safe assumption. But, are there many fonts out there
not made for zh-hk but have thousands of glyphs in the PUA?

Cheers

Roger
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