. C.T.M. Jacobs wrote, > And yet Tengwar seems to redefine the ASCII range ... > > http://www.gis.net/~dansmith/fonts/tengwar.htm >
Not Tengwar itself, of course, but rather the various font developers who have made these "custom-encoded" fonts. The less charitable among us call such fonts "hack fonts". Many examples exist, and such redefinition of the ASCII ranges predates the Unicode Standard. During the 1980's, before the Unicode Standard, and even into the 90's, when Unicode support was minimal, font developers and end users really didn't have any other option. Such custom encoding was quite common. Now that we all know better (smile) we should avoid making custom encoded fonts. The developers of such fonts (who are still making and maintaining these fonts) should be urged to make conformant fonts. Custom encoded fonts will be phased out, eventually. Meanwhile, there are still some great archives of non-Standard fonts, and users of antiquated computers can still find such fonts useful in a limited fashion. Best regards, James Kass .
