Re: Newbie Question - what are all those duplicated characters FOR?

2003-08-14 Thread Stefan Persson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm reasonably sure that this question reflects my own ignorance, rather than some problem with the standard, but nonetheless, I am confused. For a start, we have the letters A to Z starting at 41. These are the normal letters. Then we have the circled forms starting

RE: Newbie Question - what are all those duplicated characters FOR?

2003-08-14 Thread Kent Karlsson
> Stefan has effectively dealt with SOME of my confusion, but questions > remain. For example: between 1D49C (mathematical script capital A) and > 1D49E(mathematical script capital C) we find 1D49D > (). What is it > reserved for? I am aware that codepoint 212C is script > capital B, but why > d

RE: Newbie Question - what are all those duplicated characters FOR?

2003-08-14 Thread Jill . Ramonsky
Hey thanks - I think I've got all that now. Of course, I'm tempted to wonder whether or not it would have made more sense to simply have introduced a few new combining characters in plane 0, such as: "make bold", "make italic", "make script", "make fraktur", "make double-struck", "make sans serif

RE: Newbie Question - what are all those duplicated characters FOR?

2003-08-14 Thread Jill . Ramonsky
, or indeed point me in the direction of "the text" which explains it. Thanking you in advance for your help, Jill -Original Message- From: Michael Everson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 6:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Newbie Question -