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On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Frank Mittelbach wrote:
> > Adobe has assigned dotlessj to U+F6BE (LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS J), but
> > that is inofficial (and thus not universal) as it resides in the private
> > use area.
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> what we try is to provide a utf8 input encoding, how likely is it that some
> editor or application generates that Adobe thing? not very i would guess (at
> least not now) therefore i would not assign anything.
Something that may happen:
1. A TeX document is typeset with a PS Type 1 font will have the dotlessj
somewhere. After being converted to PDF, you will have the glyph in a PDF
document. Adobe tools see a 'dotlessj' there.
2. Someone copies and pastes it from Acrobat Reader into a document using
an editor that supports Adobe private use characters. He sees a dotlessj
there.
3. The output is fed back into LaTeX.
> that would be wrong in my opinion. the internal LaTeX form
> \textasteriskcentered is clearly a text character and U+2217 is a math
> symbol. so if some application is requesting U+2217 it should get a * in
> math mode that is (probably, haven't checked the unicode page) a
> relation or a binary operator.
Unicode doesn't distinguish that much between text and math characters. It
says somewhere that you may use a math character as a bullet or something.
I guess the best way to implement this is if you saw the character in text
mode it is \textasteriskcentered and if you saw it in math mode it is '*'.
Anyway, what is the usage of \textasteriskcentered? I may be able to
follow it up with Unicode guys and see if we need a character for that.
> whether that is worth doing, I don't know. I guess as part of the exercise we
> should perhaps build an extended list of all mapping from unicode to known
> (abd used) encoding-specific commands.
I'm in.
roozbeh
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