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Re: Ornaments and Unicode
Care should be taken not to confuse key combinations with character or glyph combinations. Keystrokes, like other input systems, are entirely arbitrary mechanisms to input character codes, either ind…3 -
Re: Ornaments and Unicode
The number of purely ornamental characters in Unicode is pretty small; most have some kind of symbolic function. There is, of course, the Ornamental Dingbats block, the original Dingbats block, which…5 -
Re: r rotunda in inscriptions
The rotunda broken r presents an interesting design problem for roman types used to transcribe manuscripts. A peculiar convention of some transcriptions is to set an e.g. bastarda, rotunda, or other …6 -
Re: Latin Extended-B Languages?
The Unicode Latin Extended-B block contains a mix of diacritic characters from different sources: Non-European and historic This section includes a lot of letters used in African languages, as well a…15 -
Re: What were the first OpenType font releases? And when?
Apart from a change in technologies, there are significant design differences between the Apple version of Zapfino and the later OT version. We built the AAT version, based on outlines provided to us…5
