On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 11:28 PM, J Decker <d3c...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 ....
What? I don't see what an apparent ligature matching or OCR glitch in PDFs has to do with this.
