>> >> Respefully, > Nice one, Doug. Unfortunately, on my system, that collides with the ConScript version of Shavian which I have installed, so I got something unexpected. ☹
Yet ConScript has now withdrawn that allocation and now uses that code point for Ewellic. http://www.evertype.com/standards/csur/ewellic.html What is interesting is as to how Doug produced that effect. How was it done please? Here it came out as a black rectangle in Outlook Express. So I did two things. Firstly I looked in the message source and found the string =EE=9C=87 in the line of text. Secondly I did a copy and paste of the text from Outlook Express to Word 97 and then did a Save as HTML and then I looked at the source code of the HTML file which was produced. This produced the number 59143 in the sequence  so I then looked in the list at the following web page. http://www.Joern.De/tipsn128.htm#Ligaturen There, to my delight, was the number 59143 alongside my choice of U+E707 for the ct ligature. This is interesting, as the fact that your system was set up for ConScript and Doug wrote using a character from what is now called the golden ligatures collection provides a good practical example of the need for the use of the classification codes which I suggested some time ago. If the Conscript registry is defined to be in one type tray and the golden ligatures collection is defined to be in another type tray, then, in future software, the two different meanings associated with the code point U+E707 could be clearly signalled, indeed the two meanings could both be signalled in the same document! I am wondering what is the coding that Doug used, namely =EE=9C=87 in the line of text. I have also analysed the other black rectangle which appears in your posting by the same process. It comes out as decimal 9785 which converts to hexadecimal 2639 which, upon looking in the code charts, gives a variation on a smiley, namely a frowning face. Looking at the source code of your posting I noticed a lot of =3D characters, yet there were no black rectangles accompanying them, though the screen did show a row of = characters. So, it would appear that if Outlook Express has a fount which recognizes the characters then they will appear on the screen in Outlook Express, even on older PCs. So, Doug has proved the benefit of my list existing and you have proved the benefit of, in the future, using my suggested classification codes. The documents showing the golden ligatures collection of Private Use Area code points for ligatures are available at the following web address. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo William Overington 1 June 2002
