Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa at gmail dot com> wrote: >> As soon as you embed all the information in the font, you require >> different solutions for systems that use different font technologies. > > Why? In the end all the systems base upon the character properties > specified by the standard. For the PUA characters in question, what is > needed for a table of properties to override the default ones. The > systems would then handle those new properties in the same way that they > would handle the regular ones.
Right, so if you embed that table in an OT font, the information is not available to a system that uses a font technology other than OT. What is needed is a way to specify the properties in a platform-independent way, where "platform" means not only "OS" but also "font technology." -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14 www.ewellic.org | www.facebook.com/doug.ewell | @DougEwell