On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 12:44 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 15:41 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 09:13:03AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > Then get the Unicode people sign off on treating your special special > > > characters as text, otherwise it's just an abuse of the system. If all > > > the people who want to do this get together and get a set of agreed upon > > > generic icon 'types' defined as Unicode code points - 'U+B540 is a > > > preferences icon', or what the heck ever - then fine. As long as people > > > are just making it up as they go along, they're 'embracing and > > > extending'. > > > > Well, it does seem that they're using the Private Use Areas, which are > > specfically reserved for basically this purpose. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Use_Areas > > Well, kinda. That still only works as long as you can be sure all your > users are actually going to use your Special Font, though, because there > is basically zero chance that any other font will contain the 'correct' > symbols for your usage at the same codepoints in its PUA. I'd still > argue it's really not appropriate to use it in any case at all where > people might not actually want to use your Not to mention what happens if someone picks a font that happens to put some *other* symbols in the same codepoints in the PUA... -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
