On Friday 4 June 2010, Mark Davis ☕ <m...@macchiato.com> wrote:
> You (or William Overington, for example) are free to define a range within
> that area for your specific use.
Well, as it happens I did make some Private Use Area allocations for
hexadecimal digits back in 2002.
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2002-m06/0262.html
In fact, I implemented a set of 16 equal width glyphs 1..9 and A..F in my Quest
text font, which font was the first font with a complete alphabet that I ever
published.
I have added to the font at various times over the years, though nothing has
been changed since 2008.
The font is available from the following web page.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/fonts.htm
The font has its own thread in the Gallery forum at the
http://forum.high-logic.com webspace.
http://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=682
Also, the font is used for one of the graphic designs in the following
collection.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/usinggraphicsandfonts.htm
The particular design being as follows, which design, as it happens, I
remembered recently when looking through the emoji code chart.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/moon.PDF
It is worth mentioning that no Private Use Area code point allocations are
binding on anyone else and that just because one person uses a particular
Private Use Area allocation for some purpose that usage does not mean that
nobody else will use that code point allocation for something else.
However, within those limits, the Private Use Area can be useful for many
purposes. For example, I have recently been using the Private Use Area for
adding some alternate glyphs to a font and I am pleased with the results.
The font is Sonnet Calligraphic and is still under development, yet the font is
available from its own thread in the Gallery forum of the
http://forum.high-logic.com webspace.
http://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2957
What I like about the font is that good results can be achieved using the font
with Microsoft WordPad, which is widely available.
William Overington
5 June 1020
