- From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 11:58:08 +0100
- To: ap@webkit.org
- Cc: public-html@w3.org, www-math@w3.org
Besides, font support for U+027E8 MATHEMATICAL LEFT ANGLE BRACKET seems to be rather poor at the moment - on my machine, there is only one font that has it. This is always a major consideration (and a major cause of difference between the mathml set and for example unicode/stix. When designing unicode n (for some n bigger than 3) or a specific new font set such as stix, it makes a lot of sense to recommend use of a particular (new) slot. But that doesn't necessarily mean that existing entity names should be remapped to the new slots as it can take decades for installed font sets to catch up. It doesn't necessarily mean that mappings should ever change, but each character needs to be considered individually. Hopefully font sets such as stix will mean that it is easy (and free) to get basic default coverage of all these "new" unicode 3.x characracters at the font level, so perhaps it does now make sense to be braver about changing some existing entity mappings, although I must admit my working assumption had been that the html mappings were unchangeable (even though they are "inconvenient" in lots of places). David ________________________________________________________________________ The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is: Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ________________________________________________________________________
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