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bug #23050: Characters in Private Use Area

Submitter:  Steve White <Stevan_White>
Submitted:  Sat 26 Apr 2008 08:39:25 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  character range Severity:  2 - Minor
Item Group:  glyph(s) incorrect Status:  Fixed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  Stevan_White
Open/Closed:  Closed Release:  * 2006-01-26
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Fri 12 Sep 2008 08:20:50 AM UTC, comment #4: 

In release 20080912

Steve White <Stevan_White>
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Sat 14 Jun 2008 01:30:53 PM UTC, comment #3: 

Note:

I am starting to use the Private Use area for other purposes, such as for accents used by multiple characters and ligatures that have no Unicode of their own.

I think this was the intended use of this range.

Steve White <Stevan_White>
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Sat 03 May 2008 08:43:37 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Primoz has told me he doesn't think these are of any use any more.

So I have deleted them in CVS.

Steve White <Stevan_White>
Group administrator
Sat 26 Apr 2008 08:46:56 AM UTC, comment #1: 

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:

"A Perl script for moving kerning information from ASCII numerals
(U+0030...) to characters in the Adobe corporate use area
(U+F6xx)."

Steve White <Stevan_White>
Group administrator
Sat 26 Apr 2008 08:39:25 AM UTC, original submission:  

This is from Jacob Poon's report of 2007-10,
https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?106274

There are 12-15 characters in the Private Use Area (U+E000-F8FF) in each font variant, which do not serve any useful purposes. These characters should be unassigned, and the source glyphs should be removed if they are not used by other assigned characters in any way.

Steve White <Stevan_White>
Group administrator

 

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