Re: Private Use Area

Jungshik Shin wrote on 04/25/2003 01:01:02 AM:

>   It seems like a lot of Thai truetype fonts (without GSUB/GPOS tables)
> for Windows use U+F700 - U+F717 for presentation forms

Actually, the UPC fonts all use F700..F71D


> However, I don't believe those codepoints
> are used in _text/document_ encoding by Windows.

That's correct.



> Some 'Thainess' might
> have been attached to them by some Windows applications (as it turned
> out to be the case for PUA codepoints mapped from UDC areas of legacy
> CJK encodings), but I guess/hope not.

I don't think this has been the case. I believe these have just been
codepoints used for internal purposes by GDI (and perhaps more recently by
Uniscribe -- though they are moving away from encoded presentation forms
for Thai).



- Peter


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