<div dir="ltr"> I know I am going off your topic here, and I apologize:<br><br>But for backwards bug-for-bug compatibility, I wonder how these characters can be of any use as separate characters:<div>their usefulness lies exactly in being able to use 1/6 character blocks as pixels in a contiguous image laid-out with</div><div>characters. I mean, that even for an application that should behave like a legacy application, would not</div><div>its visuals be improved by contiguous mosaics? <br>Do you have any example were separate mosaics looks better, or do you need it just to achieve the </div><div>same look and feel?<br><br>I emphasize I am just asking this out of curiosity.<br><br>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div> js</div><div> -><-</div><div><br>Do you have </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 5 Oct 2020 at 09:27, Rob Hardy via Unicode <<a href="mailto:unicode@unicode.org">unicode@unicode.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>When I mentioned the text file scenario, I was just thinking about a copy and paste from my application into some other app, so it's not really the main scenario. I'm actually using SVG/CSS to draw the page, which includes flashing and a 'press reveal'
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<div>As mentioned, the font I found (UNSCII) uses private use characters for the separated mosaics, so I'll use those for now. (Another option would have been to draw a mask over the contiguous mosaics, but then that's not far removed from drawing the mosaics
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