Hi Stuart,
These have been included because they are in widespread use in a current
written culture. The problems I personally have are down to characters
used by a single publisher in a handful of books more than a hundred
years ago. Such characters are explicitly excluded from Unicode.
In
Hmm, you could theoretically assign chars in the private unicode area to
the chars you need -- but then have your application replace those chars
by small images on rendering/display.
This seems as clean a solution as you are likely to find. Your TEI
solution still requires chars-as-images
Jakob Voss wrote:
Eric Hellman wrote:
May I just add here that of all the things we've talked about in
these threads, perhaps the only thing that will still be in use a
hundred years from now will be Unicode. إن شاء الله
Stuart Yeates wrote:
Sadly, yes, I agree with you on this.
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