Philippe Verdy wrote:
Interesting point. This would be an argument for the developement (out of Unicode) of some standard technical solutions to exchange these private conventions on PUA usage, including exchange of character properties, etc...
Why not then within fonts -- namely in Opentype tables for fonts built with these PUA assignments?
Fonts are collections of glyphs. It is important to keep this in mind when proposing that, somehow, character properties be included in fonts.
The only interaction between glyphs in a font and character codes in text is via mapping (which is done either internally or externally, depending on the font format). Fonts do not contain any character information other than which glyphs corrrespond to which characters. All other information in the font is glyph-centric; e.g. ligature and other substitution lookups map glyphs to glyphs, not characters to glyphs. Trying to introduce character properties into such a glyph-centric architecture would be, at best, an awkward fit.
John Hudson
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