On Wednesday, June 11, 2014, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoekstra@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you very much for the interesting talk, everybody. I do have a follow up question though, that I didn't think of during the talk. It was indicated that the glyphs will occupy the private use space. Many symbols already have their own codepoints over severals blocks, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_Symbols . Would it make sense for those symbols that already have a code point to use the already defined code point rather than a private use code point? I'm thinking about the star, black star, pencil, paperclip and gear for example, but I think the same goes for most glyps on the image in the github page.
That's an interesting idea to experiment with -- especially if people start using wikifont icons in wiki text or templates this'll let at least some of th have reasonable fallback display where HTML is scraped but styles lost.
-- Brion