C J Fynn <cfynn at gmx dot net> wrote: > I'm not sure whether anyone would want to use non-standard properties > for such PUA text where they didn't have a font that supported the > properties for display.
I'm sure they would not. > One of the reasons I suggested putting the properties in the font was > that you would then be fairly certain of having the properties that > font was designed to work with (and avoid the need of having someone > maintain something like a Con-Script character properties registry). Certainly, you would want to use a font that associates the correct properties with characters, PUA or otherwise. But a separate property database could cover properties that have nothing to do with rendering (there are some) and could be independent of platform and font technology. I think there will be a need for a ConScript properties registry as long as anyone expects to do more with the characters it encodes than display them in a chart. > Anything like this should of course be expressly limited to PUA > characters. Of course, because the properties for normal assigned Unicode characters can be built right into the rendering subsystem. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
