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[Andrew Cunningham]

Hi Don

I'd add a third point to your list below:

3) do you use a glyph variation for an existing Unicode character.

I remember at least one case where we had to modify a font so that for
one character, an alternative glyph for the character became the
default glyph for the character, and the glyphs
for two other characters were modified to provide culturally
acceptable glyphs for the font.

Andrew

2008/5/17 Don Osborn <dzo at bisharat.net>:
> Just catching up with this thread. As Bill pointed out, it is custom
> encoding (not fonts) that is the problem.
>
> The way I explain it to people, there are two issues with extended Latin
> characters:
> 1) are the ones you need encoded in Unicode?
> 2) are they included in any existing (Unicode) fonts?
>



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Andrew Cunningham
Vicnet Research and Development Coordinator
State Library of Victoria
Australia

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