- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 22:53:39 -0500
- To: 'WWW International' <www-international@w3.org>
- CC: Unicode Mailing List <unicode@unicode.org>
Doug Ewell wrote: > fantasai <fantasai dot lists at inkedblade dot net> wrote: > >> ... Kobayashi Tatsuo and I looked >> through the Unicode repetoire last week, and we found >> U+FE45 SESAME DOT >> U+FE46 WHITE SESAME DOT >> which covers only two of the shapes. Also, they are in the >> compatibility forms block, so their use is discouraged. > > I might have missed something, but I thought I remembered Asmus and > others stating clearly that there was no correlation between the block > where a character resides and whether that character is discouraged. tlk@kobysh.com wrote: > As I mentioned at Canne, iven if SESAME DOT and IDEOGRAPHIC COMMA have > very similar shapes, these two symbols have completely different > semantic meaning each other. > Only possible way to make SESAME DOT in actual use in Unicode > environment is to develop a font whitch has SEASAME DOT glyph in its > proper code position. In that case should the W3C CSS3 Text spec recommend the use of U+FE45 for emphasis marks? ~fantasai
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