William Overington wrote:

> I have added a new code recently, which is U+E700 STAFF which is a vertical
> line from the very top of the glyph and going as far below the 0 line as one
> chooses for a particular font. With Quest text I encoded this character
> early with a line going vertically from -768 font units to 2048 font units.

And the purpose of this is? As James Kass points out, why not use U+2502?


There are technical reasons involving the VDMX table why one might put a full-height glyph in a TrueType font, but typically one doesn't want this glyph to be encoded since its only purpose is to prevent random scaling interpolation.

John Hudson

Tiro Typeworks          www.tiro.com
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