On 4 Apr 2017, at 00:47, Richard Wordingham <richard.wording...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to work out whether we need a variation sequence for > "chesspiece in a sentence”. Of course! Haven’t you ever seen chess problem texts? Check out the Fairy Chess proposal for encoding additional characters. Plenty of examples there. > We need the advice of someone who's worked on font fallback. > > You don't need substitution tables to be executed if your application can > just look up glyphs for variation sequences. That’s the same thing. sub characterA characterB by glyphC; It works reliably in a number of environments, though I think some screenshots I sent are in mails which have not got through. Michael Everson
