At 20:59 +0000 2002-10-28, Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin wrote:
>On 2002.10.28, 13:09, David Starner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>  Basically, any decorative or handwriting font can't be a Unicode font.
><...>
>>  Seems pointless to tell a lot of the fontmakers out there that they
>>  shouldn't worry about Unicode, because Unicode's only for standard
>>  book fonts
>
>Hm, what if I want to make, say, snow capped Devanagari glyphs for my
>hiking company in Nepal? Shouldn't I assign them to Unicode code points?

That's what Private Use code positions are for.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com
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I don't think so. He seems to be talking about a specific typographic style.
Code points don't care about style, whether it's Franklin Gothic or
Snowcapped Helvetica.

Don

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