Andy Black wrote: > > Many of our users are writing linguistic papers using very specialized > orthographies. A number of them need to use Unicode characters in the > Private Use Area because the symbols are not in standard Unicode. We > have fonts that correctly render these PUA characters (e.g. Charis SIL, > see http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software.asp?id=112), but > XXE ignores them (at least as far as I can tell...) due to this CSS > restriction. This means that these users only see square boxes instead > of their specialized characters. Obviously this is not a good situation > for an author. He/she must check the formatted output to see if he/she > keyed the correct character. He/she cannot merely look at the screen. >
This is a good reason. We'll download your font and we'll check that we can do something useful with it (I mean: in the context of XXE). If it is the case, we'll remove the restriction.
