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Re: PUA Overcrowding
Before Emoji, support for characters outside BMP was erratic; many applications and programming languages that implemented Unicode support during UCS-2 time didn’t handle UTF-16 surrogate pairs corre…5 -
Re: Kerning of .otf files in MS Word 2011 and MS Word 2016 (v 16.16) Mac
Firefox and Chrome used to have this simple text/complex text distinction, but eventually both killed it for good. Performance for so called complex text benefited from the optimization that resulted…4 -
Re: Shouldn't italic be an OpenType feature?
TeX has a glyph metric called italic correction, which is value to be inserted between italic and non-italic text to compensate for the negative right side bearing of italic glyphs. OpenType does not…1 -
Re: bar and broken bar
Bar (| U+007C) is used as a delimiter in math, often paired with other brackets so for that use I always make it the same hight and depth as other brackets. No idea what broken bar is used for.6 -
Re: Alternates combinations
If I were to use stylistic sets for the main style differences, I’d then use character variants for the other alternate glyphs.1
