Sorry Wrong link in my reply, part of my development.

See https://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/BidiBrackets.txt for open 
and close pairs.

Tony


On Wednesday, 2 December 2020 at 16:26:45 UTC+11 TonyM wrote:

> *TT, et al*
>
> Yes lets start "* Unicode and Font Support in TW* " thread, however I was 
> keen to make it easier for us to finalise on our glyphs to support closing 
> that issue., thus relevant to this thread.
>
> This may be a possibility to build our own targeted font, but its looking 
> to me like most platforms have access to glyphs for a wide range of Unicode 
> already. 
>
> I also think making the fonts visible can also be an option. If we publish 
> a wiki, and we rely on Unicode characters for customise,  and present 
> output without those same characters visible, just used in code, all should 
> work as expected. Only when editing a tiddler containing such characters 
> they would not be able to read them, or tell them apart,  if they do not 
> have the correct font. Ie functionality remains, visibility does not. The 
> customise plugin can display these critical characters and note if they 
> appear all the same, they need to update fonts available to view the 
> glyphs. Or activate a sub-font with the select glyphs defined.
>
> From what I can see so far, a lot of platforms will have little trouble 
> with the vast majority of Unicode Characters because of the sets commonly 
> distributed to devices.
>
> *Jeremy,*
> Interesting and Curious what you saw, I never did because I do not use 
> rounded buttons. Many Unicode characters have different widths which must 
> give rise to this.
>
> *PMario et al, Inline;*
>
> I just found this document which contains the matched braces available 
> throughout Unicode 
> https://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/Blocks.txt which may prove 
> useful in the subsequent inline features.
>
> I continue to work on compiling information in a searchable tiddlywiki for 
> managing "any" Unicode character or range.
>
> Tony
> On Wednesday, 2 December 2020 at 04:42:53 UTC+11 @TiddlyTweeter wrote:
>
>> Ciao TonyM & PMario
>>
>> TonyM wrote:
>>
>>> Here is my initial draft  Glyphs 5.1.23-prerelease — Identifying 
>>> reliable Unicode Glyphs on TiddlyWiki Build Date (anthonymuscio.github.io) 
>>> <https://anthonymuscio.github.io/PreReleaseGlyphs.html> 
>>>
>>
>> *TonyM*: That demo shows the issues arising over font support are 
>> generic---Not Just for PMario Markup. I think we should pursue the broader 
>> scope in a NEW thread. Maybe "Unicode and Font Support in TW". Do you want 
>> to start it? I have some solutions in mind. But they are refactory to this 
>> thread.
>>
>> *PMario*: I think TonyM is *definitely heading in the right direction* 
>> on trying to pin down font support issues for your Custom Markup by 
>> illustration.
>> I can see the beginning of a *solution*. One where reliable markup 
>> glyphs could be always relied upon whatever platform you are on. It would 
>> be *a very minimal font embedded in TW for JUST markup glyphs. It would 
>> be kilobytes, not megabytes*. To get to the point of proof-of-concept I 
>> need some days yet, but I'm getting close. Its just trudge over the Unicode 
>> BMP to establish which fonts would provide the glyphs needed, cost free, to 
>> make a good "TW-MarkupGlyphsFont".
>>
>> Best wishes
>> TT
>>
>

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