Re: Accessing alternate glyphs from plain text (from Re: Draft Proposal to add Variation Sequences for Latin and Cyrillic letters)

[William_J_G Overington]

Thank you for replying.
 
On Friday 6 August 2010, Asmus Freytag <asm...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
 
> What you mean are artistic or stylistic variants.
> 
> These have certain problems, see here for an explanation:
> http://www.unicode.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=221#p221
> 
> A./
> >    
 
I have read and reread the forum post to which you refer.
 
I cannot understand from that text, or otherwise at the time of writing this 
reply, why it would not be possible to have an alternate ending glyph for a 
letter e accessible from plain text using an advanced font technology font (for 
example, an OpenType font) using the two character sequence U+0065 U+FE0F.
 
The specific design of an alternate ending e glyph would vary from font to 
font, yet that it is an alternate ending e would be clear: the encoding U+0065 
U+FE0F would allow the intention that an alternate ending glyph for a letter e 
is requested to be carried within a plain text document.
 
I accept that I might be missing something here. If so I would be happy to 
learn: at the moment, however, it still seems to me to be a good idea for an 
encoding.
 
William Overington
 
7 August 2010