Re: First Sentence in Piktok
| From: | Garth Wallace <gwalla@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 9, 2003, 6:03 |
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jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM wrote:
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> TrueType fonts can contain up to 65536 glyphs, and each can be
> assigned to one or more Unicode characters or combinations thereof.
> If you think 6400 is a comfortable upper bound, then you can map
> them to the Private Use Area of Unicode, and anyone with a modern
> Windows, Unix, or Mac system can display text with your fonts.
Don't forget that parts of the Private Use Area are set aside for
vendor-specific things. For example, Linux uses F810-F813 for keyboard
symbols and F8D0-F8FF for Klingon. You might want to take a look at the
ConScript Unicode Registry <http://www.evertype.com/standards/csur/>
before assigning code points.
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