On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Michael Everson wrote: > 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.
(piggybacking on your message, Michael) Nor U+0061 LATIN SMALL LETTER A, which sometimes looks like U+0251 LATIN SMALL LETTER ALPHA, and sometimes doesn't. > > - 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? :-) And where would the data come from? :/ A turned "R" (similar to U+042F CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YA) is sometimes used whimsically in place of U+0052 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R to 1) imitate children's handwriting mistakes, e.g., in the logo of the toy store Toys "R" Us (http://www.toyrsus.com/), or to 2) imitate "Russian", e.g., the Tetris logo. Like with Han characters, its not only what looks similar, but also what's considered similar... Just yesterday, I saw some product packaging where a grave accent was used where an acute accent was meant--no doubt, the error resulting from (US) English speakers' general unfamiliarity with diacritics (and who'd consider them to be optional adornments such that e = e acute = e grave). Thomas Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
