On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 9:18 PM, Garth Wallace <gwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > There's another strategy for dealing with enclosed numbers, which is > taken by the font Quivira in its PUA: encoding separate > left-half-circle-enclosed and right-half-circle-enclosed digits. This > would require 20 characters to cover the double digit range 00–99. > Enclosed three digit numbers would require an additional 30 for left, > center, and right thirds, though it may be possible to reuse the left > and right half circle enclosed digits and assume that fonts will > provide left half-center third-right half ligatures (Quivira provides > "middle parts" though the result is a stadium instead of a true > circle). It should be possible to do the same for enclosed ideographic > numbers, I think. > > The problems I can see with this are confusability with the already > encoded atomic enclosed numbers, and breaking in vertical text. >
I suppose that's why things like this happen in appilcations.... Joined "ti" coded as "Ɵ" in PDF http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2016-m03/0084.html you get an encode of a series of codepoints, that results in an array of font glyph-points to render ....
