Just that it looked interesting:
I have read the Unicode.org web site and alot of Characters encording
have been change ; for example, Khmer Langauge , so where can i download
the charactors encording and unicode range update for font lab ? [...]
roozbeh
Hi,
ISCII uses the halant in the way Apurva has described. Bangla(Bengali)
script originally uses conjunct forms only. Distinct half-forms have crept
into the script only in recent times[possibly due to typographical
constraints e.g. I have seen the word tax written as 'Ta' + 'ka' +
Personally, I find it counter-productive to add a hodge-podge of dingbats and
miscellaneous symbols to Unicode, or any coded character set.
They had practical uses when user interfaces and display systems could not handle
icons and arbitrary images, but those times are long over.
Witness the
Markus Scherer wrote:
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uses when user interfaces and display systems could not handle icons and
arbitrary images, but those times are long over.
I wish this was the case, but most if not all systems insist that graphics
stored in a font be accessed as
On Sat, 18 May 2002, Doug Ewell wrote:
and the VCR front-panel icons come to mind.
[...]
Anyway, as long as such characters are deemed appropriate for Unicode, I
was wondering recently about the lock and unlock symbols,
represented by a closed and open padlock respectively. [...] Is it worth
Branching off from the subject of symbol encodings, I wondered about the
application of emoticons in the Miscellaneous Symbols block. Now even though
I know characters such as the white smiling face were included for
compatibility with DOS CP437 and its offshoots, yet the white frowning face
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