[Freefont-bugs] Re: [bug #23050] Characters in Private Use Area

[Primoz PETERLIN]

Hi,

Characters in the private area obviously seemed a good idea to me at
some time, although I don't think I could give now a decent rationale
for it. One reason was surely the dotless j, and the Indic characters
probably ended up there because I toyed with the opentype ligature
mechanism.

The numerals in the Adobe private area are probably the "old style"
numerals (e.g., 9 with a descender etc.)

Best regards,
Primož

2008/4/26 Steve White <address@hidden>:
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>  Update of bug #23050 (project freefont):
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>               Item Group: character replacement issue => glyph(s) incorrect
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>                   Status:               Confirmed => In Progress
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>  Follow-up Comment #1:
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>  I have previously deleted many of these.  This took some work: some were
>  referenced elsewhere (there was a dotless j, which now has a proper place in
>  Unicode, and a
>
>  I think in one face, there are some Indian characters in this range too.
>  These appear to be simply misplaced, but they are referenced elsewhere, and
>  there isn't room for them in the high unicode range where they perhaps ought
>  to go
>
>  The numerals were put there deliberately. F600-9, F6DC
>  In the tools directory is a script to put them in, by Primoz:  CVS log
>  reads:
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>  "A Perl script for moving kerning information from ASCII numerals
>  (U+0030...) to characters in the Adobe corporate use area
>  (U+F6xx)."
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