
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> </head> <body><div class="auto-created-dir-div" dir="auto" style="unicode-bidi: embed;"><style>p{margin:0}</style>Doug Ewell wrote:<div><p><br></p><p>> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;">Do they still want to use out-of-band character-set designators as font selection hints?</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;"><br></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;">Can you elaborate on this please?</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;"><br></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">If this were done in Unicode, would that be something like having a "quasi-control character" encoded in Unicode to mean "Please use a Venetian-style font until further notice" or something like that?</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Or would it be more like having a "quasi-control character" encoded in Unicode to mean "Please use 72 point until further notice"?</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Or does it mean something else?</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">William Overington</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Friday 3 September 2021</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></p></div></div></body></html>