William Overington <WOverington at ngo dot globalnet dot co dot uk> wrote:
>>> 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 Yet ConScript has now withdrawn that allocation and now uses that 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
