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Date: Fri May 23 2003 - 07:44:00 CDT
On 21 May 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Claus Färber wrote:
> Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> schrieb/wrote:
> > The word we want has to describe the object that will appear on the
> > display as a single entity (but which might, after I18N has happened,
> > consist of a base character with added decorations). I agree that column
> > could be misleading in some contexts. I see that "glyph" and "symbol" have
> > been suggested, and I would be happy with either if the WG agrees (mildly
> > prefer "glyph" over "symbol"). Or is there some other standard word which
> > the Unicode people use?
>
> Glyph is defined by Unicode as the 'object that will appear on the
> display as a single entitiy' but that is not what we really want. Glyphs
> can be diacritics, ligatures, etc.
> UTR#17[1] lists several examples where a single character (sequence) has
> a different number of glyphs depnding on the font.
I mentioned glyph, and what you say is what I think we want. If the sender
specifies a font in which a sequence is two "column positions" wide, it is
sender's responsibility to limit to the max width. It must be done at the
sending end.
Yes, the reader could be doing somthing stupid, stupidy, like virtue, is
its own reward. But in general the font is set at the sending end.
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