Re: Encoding: Referring people to a list of labels

On 28 January 2014 10:01, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote:

> Andrew Cunningham scripsit:
>
> > PUA is a possibility,  although it will have impacts. The PUA in the
> > BMP is heavily used by Microsoft and Apple for legacy data.
>
> As I said before, F000-F0FF is reserved by Microsoft (and also by CSUR)
> for font-kludge encodings such as dingbat fonts:  if you put a dingbat
> into a Word document, for example, the internal representation is as a
> character in this range marked up with the respective font.
>
>
Hi John thanks for the correction.

so I assume that browser font fallback behaviour should be different for
F000-F0FF compared to other PUA codepoints.


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