From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 5 16:24:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from whizkidtech.net (r12.bfm.org [216.127.220.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E84837B915 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 16:24:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adam@whizkidtech.net) Received: (from adam@localhost) by whizkidtech.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) id SAA00242; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 18:23:05 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from adam) Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 18:22:34 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" To: Alex Belits Cc: Jason , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unicode on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000405182234.A226@whizkidtech.net> References: <20000405221720.3209.qmail@scam.xcf.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us on Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 03:30:22PM -0700 Organization: Whiz Kid Technomagic X-URL: http://www.whizkidtech.net/ X-Castle: http://www.redprince.net/ X-Special-Effects: http://www.FilmSFX.com/ X-Operating-System: FreeBSD whizkidtech.net 3.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 03:30:22PM -0700, Alex Belits wrote: > Lack of extensibility and variants. Don't they just love the great >extensibility means aka non-standardized and non-standardizable "private >use area" that defeats the whole idea of having a standard charset? Absurd! The private use area is for application specific usage. Suppose you want to design a database of cleaning supplies. You create a font for the use with your application, which will draw soap, mop, towel, and things like that. These are not in Unicode, and your odds of convincing the Consortium to include them are slim. So, your application will assign points within the private use are to soap, mop, towel, etc. You are fighting wind mills, my friend. Cheers, Adam -- Don't send me spam, I'm a vegetarian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message