> So you're saying PUA is only useful for rich or marked-up text? In any multi-person case, the codepoints in PUA can't be just moved on a whim, and many PUA users will have a wide array of fonts, including some with conflicting PUA coverage. Given those assumptions, PUA use can't work outside rich or marked-up text.
> Plus I have only one PUA-based font installed on my computer. Then it works for you. But I doubt Apple is interested in a solution that has that constraint. > But even there, that > would seem to me to be a font vendor problem that should not dictate OS > policy. Would you be happy if Apple passed the buck here to font vendors or someone else? When you're writing a program that uses a file format with a bunch of not-quite-standard files out there, you have to conform to reality, not the standard. I'm not sure anything strictly says that junk in the PUA is wrong, though it's clearly sub-optimal. In any case, you're willing to work with a system where you could install Gentium and a bunch of cuniform characters became reversed Latin letters. I'm not sure that's a standard reliable enough that Apple is interested in working towards. -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm
