>This is a barrier erected for three reasons:
>
>   1. If a proposed character can't pass the font test -- i.e., nobody can
>      come up with a usable font that contains it -- then it may be of
>      rather marginal usefulness, since apparently people *aren't* using 
it.
>      Of course, historical materials printed with lead type or other
>      technologies may be exceptions, if no one has gotten around to
>      constructing modern computer fonts for it yet.
>

Hmmm... Printed??? Ogham and Gothic come to mind.

Why does the printed word get so much more respect than the written word?

It would be like saying that for a spoken language to be accepted into a 
registry, one must make a speech synthesizer for the language.

Are not handwritten glyphs just as valid as printed / typed / computer 
generated ones?


十一ちゃん  真の愛は無理な事だかしら

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