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. > > 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