Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webdingproposal)

2011-07-17 Thread Doug Ewell
Asmus wrote: The reason is, of course, because these codes would *reinterpret* existing characters. You could argue that Variation Selectors do the same, but they are carefully constructed so that they can be safely ignored. Variation selectors don't change the interpretation of characters,

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webdingproposal)

2011-07-17 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 7/17/2011 12:19 PM, Doug Ewell wrote: Asmus wrote: The reason is, of course, because these codes would *reinterpret* existing characters. You could argue that Variation Selectors do the same, but they are carefully constructed so that they can be safely ignored. Variation selectors

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webdingproposal)

2011-07-16 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 7/15/2011 10:48 PM, Doug Ewell wrote: I apologize for the unintended content-free post. It's my phone's fault. -- My dog ate the homework - 2011? :) A./

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webdingproposal)

2011-07-15 Thread Doug Ewell
-- Doug Ewell • d...@ewellic.org Sent via BlackBerry by ATT -Original Message- From: Asmus Freytag asm...@ix.netcom.com Sender: unicode-bou...@unicode.org Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:37:40 To: Michael Eversonever...@evertype.com; Unicode Mailing Listunicode@unicode.org Subject: Re: Quick

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webdingproposal)

2011-07-15 Thread Doug Ewell
I apologize for the unintended content-free post. It's my phone's fault. -- Doug Ewell • d...@ewellic.org Sent via BlackBerry by ATT