PMario & TonyM

Unicode does provide many *paired glyphs*, albeit some are outside the 
UTF-16 range. 
See, for instance, *some *of them: 
https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/mirrored

Best wishes
TT

On Friday, 25 September 2020 10:26:40 UTC+2, @TiddlyTweeter wrote:
>
> Ciao TonyM
>
> As ever from you an inclusive, broad reply.
>
> I'm actually wondering a slightly different way. Narrower. But very real. 
> ... For instance ...
>
> *Does it matter if an end-user on web has the markup character in a font?*
>
> Personally I like to use glyphs from any of the UTF-16 doable Unicode 
> (=Unicode “Basic Multilingual Plane”, choice of 55k plus characters). That 
> way you can have symbols that actually have *meaning* (open, close, 
> paragraph, section etc). I have local fonts available for that. So *I* will 
> see them in TW (OS font substitution or explicit invoke in TW settings). A 
> user may not; likely will not. 
>
> BUT, since the BESPOKE markup is mine for my use they DO NOT need to have 
> the font for the markup character since they will NEVER edit a Tiddler in 
> an application I build using this approach. that would be blocked. Its for 
> reading, not editing.
>
> In any case it would not be compatible with providing, on-line, *editable* 
> TW. 
> BUT it is GOOD from point of view of author making TW for USE, not edit, 
> by users.
>
> I think this comment encapsulates my point well enough?
>
> Regarding the OP I am wondering a bit about whether PMario's setting of 
> the "base glyphs" to be in a "European language" font is necessary.
>
> Its a thought :-) I'll expand on a bit later.
>
> Best wishes
> TT
>
>
> TonyM wrote:
>>
>> TT,
>>  
>>
>>> But, as I work with it myself I sometimes struggle with the PERMUTATIONS 
>>> possible.
>>>
>>
>> This is so often the case in tiddlywiki, the customisations and 
>> possibilities are virtually infinite in many directions.
>> This is just another few dimensions of control.
>>  
>>
>>> My main wondering is WHO is it FOR, mainly?
>>>
>>
>> Just as for tiddlywiki, we will not know except through lived experience. 
>>
>

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