On 15 July 2011 09:08, Karl Pentzlin <[email protected]> wrote: > > In supporting this, there is now a quick survey of symbol fonts regularly > delivered with computers > manufactured by Apple: > http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n4127.pdf
I am agnostic on all the symbols, but would say a definite No to encoding graphic clones of all the format (gc=Cf), space (gc=Zs) and separator (gc=Zl|Zp) characters shown on pages 3, 8 and 9 of that document. It is not necessary, and would set a bad precedent for always encoding all format and space characters in duplicate, once as a visible character and once as an invisible character. If you want a font to display a visible glyph for a format or space character then you should just map the glyph to its character in the font, as many fonts already do for certain format characters. Andrew
