On Wednesday, June 11, 2014, Martijn Hoekstra <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> Thank you very much for the interesting talk, everybody. I do have a follow
> up question though, that I didn't think of during the talk. It was
> indicated that the glyphs will occupy the private use space. Many symbols
> already have their own codepoints over severals blocks,
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_Symbols . Would it make sense for
> those symbols that already have a code point to use the already defined
> code point rather than a private use code point? I'm thinking about the
> star, black star, pencil, paperclip and gear for example, but I think the
> same goes for most glyps on the image in the github page.


That's an interesting idea to experiment with -- especially if people start
using wikifont icons in wiki text or templates this'll let at least some of
th have reasonable fallback display where HTML is scraped but styles lost.

-- Brion
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