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For instance a waste of time of font designers; you can make rational decision about including certain alphabets (by analysing the target group demands), but se

by mbq 12y ago

For instance a waste of time of font designers; you can make rational decision about including certain alphabets (by analysing the target group demands), but selecting a reasonable subset of bazyllion random, singular pictures to draw and test is a major headache. Obviously this way the users get inconsistent experience.

masklinn 12y ago
> For instance a waste of time of font designers No more so than right now. > selecting a reasonable subset of bazyllion random, singular pictures to draw and test is a major headache. Right, because there[0] were[1] no[2] "bazyllion[3] random[4], singular[5] pictures[6] to[7] draw[8] and[9] test[10]" dating back to Unicode 1.0[11] before and Unicode 7.0 changes everything. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_alphanumeric_symbols http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_alphanumeric_symbo... [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahjong#Unicode http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahjong#Unicode [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominoes#Dominoes_in_Unicode http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominoes#Dominoes_in_Unicode [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_Cards_(Unicode_block) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_Cards_(Unicode_block) [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_Symbols_(Unicode_block) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_Symbols_(Unicode_block) [5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_(symbol)#Arrows_in_Unicode http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_(symbol)#Arrows_in_Unicod... [6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_Character_Recognition_(Unicode_block) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_Character_Recognition_(... [7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_Shapes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_Shapes [8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_Dingbats http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_Dingbats [9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonetic_Extensions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonetic_Extensions [10] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscellaneous_Technical_(Unicode) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscellaneous_Technical_(Unicod... [11] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_Drawing_(Unicode_block) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_Drawing_(Unicode_block)

by mbq 12y ago

masklinn 12y ago

> For instance a waste of time of font designers No more so than right now. > selecting a reasonable subset of bazyllion random, singular pictures to draw and test is a major headache. Right, because there[0] were[1] no[2] "bazyllion[3] random[4], singular[5] pictures[6] to[7] draw[8] and[9] test[10]" dating back to Unicode 1.0[11] before and Unicode 7.0 changes everything. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_alphanumeric_symbols http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_alphanumeric_symbo... [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahjong#Unicode http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahjong#Unicode [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominoes#Dominoes_in_Unicode http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominoes#Dominoes_in_Unicode [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_Cards_(Unicode_block) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_Cards_(Unicode_block) [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_Symbols_(Unicode_block) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_Symbols_(Unicode_block) [5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_(symbol)#Arrows_in_Unicode http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_(symbol)#Arrows_in_Unicod... [6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_Character_Recognition_(Unicode_block) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_Character_Recognition_(... [7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_Shapes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_Shapes [8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_Dingbats http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_Dingbats [9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonetic_Extensions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonetic_Extensions [10] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscellaneous_Technical_(Unicode) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscellaneous_Technical_(Unicod... [11] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_Drawing_(Unicode_block) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_Drawing_(Unicode_block)