Re: fallbacks for nonexisting combining characters

[Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Robert Brady wrote:

>     [...] I should be doing something
>     similar for js, but that would require use of the PUA.

I think that we should clear out some thing soon. What should we do with
glyphs in font formats that do not support glyphs? Is it good or bad to
use the PUA? If it is bad what should we do? If it is good would someone
suggest a (democratic?) mechanism for accepting them?

>     But I'm not sure that this is a good way to do it, because it will
>     be misleading.  But OTOH, I don't like the existing approach of
>     overstriking the default glyph on the base character, as this often
>     leaves it unreadable.

Do you want to compute the blackness height in the glyph?! Or what?

--roozbeh


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