RE: Character identities

[Michael Everson]

At 14:31 -0800 2002-10-28, Figge, Donald 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.
--
Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com
------
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.

I must have misunderstood. I think I only saw the "snow-capped" and not the "Devanagari". Sorry.
--
Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com