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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2024-06-21 3:41 pm, William_J_G
Overington wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:3115cd38.1694.1903cf62ea3.Webtop.159@btinternet.com">It
did occur to me that, in my opinion, it would be better to encode
256 User-Defined Variation Selectors.</blockquote>
<p>Unless you are anticipating 256 variations of a single character
needing to be captured in plain text, that would be significant
overkill. Indeed, even if the arguments of the proposal document
are accepted, I doubt if 128 codepoints would be assigned to
implementing it. I suspect 64 would be plenty and 48 would <i>probably</i>
suffice.<br>
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<p>Remember: a) you only need enough variation selectors to address
the number of variants, not the number of characters of which
there are variants; and b) these would be the equivalent of PUA
variation selectors, so with no guaranteed interoperability beyond
private agreement among font makers and within user communities.
So the variation selectors would be shared among characters and
also across fonts for different fields and communities of
scholars.<br>
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<p>JH</p>
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of the Snuneymuxw and Penelakut First Nations.
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