Subject: Re: Unicode, fontsets, international text et al
From: Caolan McNamara (cmc@stardivision.de)
Date: Tue May 30 2000 - 08:46:40 CDT
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On 30.05.00, 15:27:36, Petr Tesarik <tesarik@lupa.cz> wrote regarding
Unicode, fontsets, international text et al:
> (BTW Dingbats and Symbols do not insert correct Unicode anyway, so we
> currently accept sort of encoding specifics - dingbats surely don't
> say e.g. "=Hln" when I see cross, star, circle, square :). But it's
> being saved that way...
As it happens you should be able to use the unicode symbol section for
all symbols, dingbats is more dodgy but I would recommend sticking to the
unicode dingbat selection and not allowing anything else. You can then
stay in 100% unicode and allow yourself to act insufferably smug towards
the rest of the word processing community. For the importing of documents
with dingbat style stuff there will be some difficulties but for instance
much of windows wingdings can be mapped to unicode
http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/wingdings/proposal/ (and perhaps more can be
if someone casts their eye over tha chart). If I had the opportunity Id
dump any concept of "special fonts" and stick to real unicode characters,
random content free pictures masquerading as characters confuses the
issue.
Dingbats http://charts.unicode.org/Web/U2700.html
Math symbols http://charts.unicode.org/Web/U2200.html
C.
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