Richard Wordingham asked, > Is this a reasonable approach to allowing both collation > and suppressing needless homographs? My contribution to > the rendering is only the provision of a font.
If anything about this approach was unreasonable, one of the experts on this list would probably have pointed it out by now. Trailblazers such as yourself will help to establish the guidelines you seek. One does the best that one can in anticipating the character strings the font will be expected to support, follows the font specs, and puts the results out there for the public. Then, the user community, if any, may provide appropriate feedback to the developers so that adjustments can be made. Riding along with the insertion of the dotted circles by the USE enables the actual users to see immediately that the text needs to be modified in order to render reasonably on that system with the shaping engine and font selected. If users consider any such insertion inappropriate, then it's feedback time. > ... and it is frequently desirable for a font to be able > to display its own name. Does the font name have to be in a Latin-based script?