At 18:37 +0000 2002-02-11, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > - a cross-reference of characters whose associated glyphs are > identical, whatever the font (applies to symbols and ``modifier > letters'');
But the letter b isn't identical from font to font in Latin. > - a cross-reference of characters whose associated glyphs could be > confused by a non-technical user; Out of the entire standard? Who's going to do that for free? :-) > - a cross-reference of characters that may, in the absence of > suitable fonts, be used as fallbacks for each other; Unicode *is* intended to encode characters, not glyphs. But I can't think of a character that can usefully represent any random Yi character in the absence of suitable fonts apart from Apple's brilliant Last Resort font, which I have seen working correctly in a number of applications. > - a map from characters to scripts; Mark Davis has such a list. > - a map from characters to languages. Such as http://www.evertype.com/alphabets ? >While much of this data may be deduced from the character names, >you'll doubtless agree that many programmers would rather do something >else than working out which characters exactly can appear in a Coptic >context. Yes, and I'm interested in that sort of task. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
