RE: Characters vs. glyphs in scholarly fonts

2002-01-02 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Asmus Freytag wrote: In a few cases, where clear glyph alternatives exist and where there is a strong requirement to preserve them in plain text, the use of a Variation Selector character can be defined, allowing one to express the distinction. Will Unicode define which glyph variation is

RE: Characters vs. glyphs in scholarly fonts

2002-01-02 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Marco asked: Asmus Freytag wrote: In a few cases, where clear glyph alternatives exist and where there is a strong requirement to preserve them in plain text, the use of a Variation Selector character can be defined, allowing one to express the distinction. Will Unicode define which

Re: Characters vs. glyphs in scholarly fonts

2001-12-30 Thread Asmus Freytag
At 03:41 PM 12/29/01 -0500, David J. Perry wrote: The ancient Roman monetary unit sestertius is not yet in Unicode. It might well be accepted if proposed, but would be given one codepoint. However, this unit appears in a variety of ways in inscriptions: IIS, HS, II with a horizontal line