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The font STIXNonUni.otf contains PUA characters, most of which appear
to be already in uniocode in some form or another. I am not clear what
the intended function of these is, they may just be legacy, or
precomposed glyphs.
John
Quoting James Kass <[email protected]>:
>
> Download, un-ZIP, and install font(s).
>
> BabelPad has a sophisticated font analysis tool which can,
> among other things, copy all the characters from a selected
> font to the clipboard. Pasting that into a new plain text
> file lists the characters by code point, font glyph, and
> Unicode name.
>
> I have tried this with the general font, and it looks like
> there are some mappings which aren't yet official:
>
> (partial listing follows)
> U+2B18 ? DIAMOND WITH TOP HALF BLACK
> U+2B19 ? DIAMOND WITH BOTTOM HALF BLACK
> U+2B1A ? DOTTED SQUARE
> U+2B1B ? <reserved>
> U+2B1C ? <reserved>
> U+2B1D ? <reserved>
> U+2B1E ? <reserved>
> U+2B1F ? <reserved>
> U+2B20 ? WHITE PENTAGON
> U+2B21 ? WHITE HEXAGON
> U+2B22 ? BLACK HEXAGON
> U+2B23 ? HORIZONTAL BLACK HEXAGON
> U+2B24 ? <reserved>
> U+2B25 ? <reserved>
> U+2B26 ? <reserved>
> U+2B27 ? <reserved>
> ... several more <reserved> positions snipped
>
> The font is pleasing in appearance.
>
> Best regards,
>
> James Kass
>
>
>
>
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