William, > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of William Overington > Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 12:55 AM > To: James Kass; Carl W. Brown; Unicode List > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Revised proposal for "Missing character" glyph > > > James Kass wrote as follows. > > quote > > For non-BMP, how about a double tall glyph at the left as the > plane signifier?
I double high number or letter will look like a standard letter that will just be narrower unless you are displaying text in a narrow font. In that case it will look like a separate character... This will be very confusing. Besides I don't like mixing bases and more than using octal for represents 8 bit bytes. It was confusing to use base 4, base 8, base 8, base 4, base 8, base 8 etc. How will you display the rest of the data. Will you use 65536 glyphs? That is a monster font. Better would be to use the top 4 bits of the low order 2 bytes then the bottom 4 bits of the same bytes. In any case you are going to a lot of trouble to avoid vertical hex which is the simple solution. Remember "keep it stupid, simple". Carl
