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- To: "Michael (michka) Kaplan" <michka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: Variation selectors for narrow/wide EastAsian glyphs
- From: David Starner <starner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 00:26:48 -0600
- Cc: unicode@xxxxxxxxxxx, Werner LEMBERG <wl@xxxxxxx>
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On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 03:48:48PM -0800, Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote:
> Variation selectors are ONLY allowed for specific characters and therefore
> the proposal given here is not possible or sensible (there are not narrow
> and wide varities of any of the characters currently being considered for
> usage with variation selectors.
>
> SIDE NOTE: The fact that this discussion is going on would perhaps be
> further proof that variation selectors are opening up a can of worms we do
> not want to be opened...
As a member of the list, let me point out this is considered neccesary
to properly support preexisting charsets. (The given purpose is to allow
charset emulation software so you can run a legacy locale on a purely
Unicode xterm.) If it's not done through a Unicode character, it will be
done through a terminal escape sequence. It's not a completely spurious
request - the right layer just needs to be found to support it.
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