Re: Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A

Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:

> Are there characters planned for 5.1.0 for Miscellaneous Mathematical
> Symbols-A at positions: ...

I haven't checked, and I would not bother checking in a case like this:

> I am currently reporting back to Stix on some of their fonts and they
> implemented glyphs on these positions and for all I can see this is
> still reserved space.

If it is reserved space, it does not matter whether something is planned 
there now. It's incorrect to use such code positions anyway, even if you 
would thereby anticipate their future assignment. Private use code 
positions are a better choice.

In _fonts_, the situation may be different: a position in a font need 
not correspond to a Unicode code position. This depends on the encoding 
of the font. The crucial question is: if you take some Unicode encoded 
data and use the font to render the text, will unassigned code numbers 
be presented properly (using symbols for unassigned positions) or as 
some graphic characters?

Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/