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Re: Tahano Nuhicamu font (was: Re: Keyboards)

From:Carsten Becker <carbeck@...>
Date:Saturday, January 14, 2006, 16:02
Paul Bennett wrote:

> What about Supplementary Private Use Area A, also known as > Plane 15, also also known as codepoints U+F0000 to > U+FFFFF? That's a full 64K codepoints, and there's > another 64K in Supplementary Private Use Area B / Plane 16 > (U+100000 to U+10FFFF).
It seems not to be possible to use Plane 15 in FontForge.
> If you can't encode your script in 128K codepoints, I > think you need to think about whether you have an > effective writing system, though there are about 65,530 > more Planes of 64K codepoints each that are yet to be > defined, and which probably will not be defined any time > soon. It's naughty, but sometimes you gotta just hope you > don't get caught...
By means of computers, this writing system is certainly not efficient. I just don't understand what I do wrong when trying to place anchors and such. It would significantly cut down the number of defined characters in the font. I think I should google for that regarding Windows's support of OpenType. Carsten

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