On Fri, 5 May 2017 18:46:17 +0000 Michael Bear via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
> But > if the cry for space gets REALLY desperate, I’ll merge identical > glyphs into one glyph. Obviously, I won’t do this for more > problematic merges, only glyphs in similar scripts with similar > features. (e.g. I would represent Latin small letter o, Greek small > letter omicron, Cyrillic small letter o, Armenian letter oh, and > Georgian labial sign with one glyph, while Hebrew letter samekh and > Arabic letter ae, despite also being circular, would be two separate > glyphs.) But I’ll only do this if I really need to. That could cause problems with extracting text from PDFs generated using the font. My interest was in whether a pan-BMP font was still possible. As you haven't done the counting (which is ill-defined for scripts with conjuncts, and possibly even also for old Hangul support), you can't tell me yet. Richard.