I’d like to suggest if this is done, some form of anti-phishing operation is established to prevent people from spoofing URL’s using glyphs. IRI’s can be used to trick people.
Duane
On 07/07/08 2:56 PM, "Patrick Durusau" <patrick@durusau.net> wrote:
Rob,
robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote:
>
> This is a specific feature in OpenType called "Alternative Glyphs"
> where a single font can contain alternative glyphs for the same
> unicode character.
>
Yes, but that is the same point that I made from a different perspective.
With OpenType you have a font and hence a "default" glyph, so specifying
an "alternative" glyph makes sense. But that presumes the use of an
OpenType font which has that capability.
My point was that in the abstract there is no default glyph, only the
Unicode character point. For more you either have to rely on font
technology (thanks for the OpenType reminder) or the markup layer. The
point being that the support does not reside in the Unicode encoding.
Hope you are having a great day!
Patrick
> See, for example: http://allthingsdesigned.com/alternativeglyphs
>
> -Rob
>
> Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net> wrote on 07/07/2008 04:50:40 PM:
>
> > Greetings!
> >
> > I think there may be two separate cases that are being covered by the
> > term "alternative" glyphs.
> >
> > Properly speaking, Unicode points represent characters and not glyphs,
> > so any glyph associated with a character is a matter of the font you
> > choose and not an "alternative glyph." To say "alternative" glyph
> > implies there is some default glyph, which is not true. The glyphs
> shown
> > in the Unicode standard are illustrative only.
> >
> > The first case for "alternative" glyphs is where I wish to specify a
> > particular glyph for a character but other that perhaps being
> > unattractive display, the information content of the text is the same.
> > Choosing any of the Latin fonts would be a good example.
> >
> > The second case and I am not sure how often it would come up, would be
> > where I use a particular code point, say for Middle Egyptian, but I
> want
> > a particular glyph, which was used for that character in a particular
> > historic period or type of text, and not some other glyph for that
> > character. While it is true that it is the "same" character, the
> meaning
> > on of the text would be changed if another glyph were substituted for
> > the one I specify. Typically that sort of additional information is
> left
> > by Unicode to the markup layer.
> >
> > Rather than saying "alternative" glyphs I think it would be more
> > accurate to speak of specifying a particular glyph or set of glyphs for
> > some portion of text.
> >
> > Considered that way, how it that different from specifying a specific
> > font be used with some particular span of text?
> >
> > Hope everyone is having a great day!
> >
> > Patrick
> >
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