On 4 Jan 2013, at 18:24, "Whistler, Ken" <[email protected]> wrote:
> There have been a few notable examples where particularly egregious examples > of holes in blocks that seemed unlikely to be filled with like material in > the future were "reprogrammed" as it were, and grabbed for the encoding of > unrelated sets of characters. The most notable of these is the range > U+FDD0..U+FDEF in the middle of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block. Another example is the Greek block, where many holes were there just because of the shape of 8859-7. These have been filled up with Greek stuff unrelated to 8859. Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
