Re: Conlang Unicode Font (was Re: Kamakawi Unicode Font Question)
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, March 8, 2008, 23:15 |
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David J. Peterson wrote:
> Herman:
> <<
> I did a version of my home page in Visible Speech once, which is in the
> Private Use area. You'll need a Visible Speech font like my Teamouse VS
> (ftp://ftp.io.com/pub/usr/hmiller/fonts/tmousevs.ttf) to see it.
> >>
>
> Well then you must be doing something right, and I must be
> doing something wrong. Here's what I think:
>
> (1) With your homepage, you added an HTML "font" tag,
> specifying what the font should be. I was hoping to avoid that--
> to just put in the unicode character, and to fill it in with the font
> that had something for that point. I've become convinced that
> is not a reality for PUA characters. Oh well. :(
Firefox doesn't need the font tag, but it seems to be necessary for IE.
> (2) With Thunderbird, we can test if it's your Olaetian font and
> not my font by using one of my characters--for example:
>
>  
Those show up as plain text in Thunderbird. But I can copy them from
Character Map.
Oddly, the first character ends up looking like a lowercase v, but the
second one appears correct. I still wonder if Microsoft might be
reserving some of the characters in this range. I'll try some of the
other characters from this font.
-- looks fine.
-- also looks fine.
-- these all look okay.
But none of the characters from U+F000 to U+F009 work.