On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 09:36:34PM +0000, Michael Everson wrote: > At 20:59 +0000 2002-10-28, Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin wrote: > >On 2002.10.28, 13:09, David Starner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> 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.
But think of the utility if Unicode added a COMBINING SNOWCAP and COMBINING FIRECAP! But should we combine the SNOWCAP with the ICECAP? (-: -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom-- A field where a thousand corpses lie. -- Stephen Crane, "War is Kind"
