Re: Chess symbol glyphs in code charts

2015-08-14 Thread Asmus Freytag (t)
On 8/14/2015 1:26 PM, Garth Wallace wrote: Would it be acceptable if I extracted the font from the code chart PDF Extraction of chart font is never acceptable and violates the Terms of Use. No exceptions. and used it as the bas

Re: Chess symbol glyphs in code charts

2015-08-14 Thread Hans Åberg
> On 14 Aug 2015, at 20:31, Garth Wallace wrote: > > Can anyone tell me what font is used for the chess symbols in the code > chart for the Miscellaneous Symbols block? It looks a lot like Chess > Merida but I can't be certain. They are quite close to Apple Symbols, but not exactly the same.

Re: Chess symbol glyphs in code charts

2015-08-14 Thread Garth Wallace
Would it be acceptable if I extracted the font from the code chart PDF and used it as the basis for one in a proposal I'm working on? The proposal covers rotated and half-black half-white chess symbols, which should match the shapes of the existing ones, and compound symbols, which should harmonize

Re: Chess symbol glyphs in code charts

2015-08-14 Thread Asmus Freytag (t)
On 8/14/2015 11:50 AM, Ken Whistler wrote: Garth, The glyphs for the chess symbols in the 26XX block date from Unicode 3.0. Most of the symbols redesigned for the Unicode 3.0 charts were done by John M. Fiscella. (See the font

Re: Chess symbol glyphs in code charts

2015-08-14 Thread Ken Whistler
Garth, The glyphs for the chess symbols in the 26XX block date from Unicode 3.0. Most of the symbols redesigned for the Unicode 3.0 charts were done by John M. Fiscella. (See the font acknowledgements on p. iv of Unicode 3.0.) I do not know which predecessor designs Fiscella might ultimately have

Chess symbol glyphs in code charts

2015-08-14 Thread Garth Wallace
Can anyone tell me what font is used for the chess symbols in the code chart for the Miscellaneous Symbols block? It looks a lot like Chess Merida but I can't be certain.

Re: Implementing SMP on a UTF-16 OS

2015-08-14 Thread Marcel Schneider
As far as it remained pregnant, the issue is now resolved to some extent. Only five high surrogates are used for the 2,413 SMP characters that might most probably be wished to be available on a universal Latin layout, so that five key positions (for example at Shift+Kana) are enough to ensure in