[DejaVu-bugs] [Bug 107496] Old Hungarian letters and its req. missing

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107496

--- Comment #22 from Tamas Rumi <rovasinfo at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #16)
> (In reply to Kovács Viktor from comment #15)
> > cc: Stuart, is there any font acceptation method for UNICODE standard?
> 
> No, they are font foundry neutral. You are free to assign any glyph(s)
> desired to the established Unicode point/name values U+10C80..U+10CFF.
> Obviously if you assign the wrong glyph to a point the users will not
> appreciate it, just keep to the Unicode specification.

There are empty slot in the so called Old Hungarian area. We ccould use them
instead of PUA area. The reason is that the Unicode standard does not meet with
the reality, we definitely need these additional empty code points.
On the other hand there are strongly different glyph variants (for example
UEE), because of historical reasons. 

 Styling the glyphs
> are up to the font designer(s) and whatever internal approval to publish.

We have developed rovas fonts, used in 90% of rovas books published in Hungary.
We are ready to give it freely for the Dejavu font family and its users. This
character set is widely known amongst rovas book readers.
> 
> For missing codepoints you'd have to use a PUA assignment in the target font

According to our experience, the PUA assignment is not eligible, using this
area shows the lacking characters from the Unicode standards. 

> to start with--and users, applications would have to pick it up there.
> 
> And when additional glyphs are accepted by users, then petition Unicode to
> add glyphs to the U+10C80..U+10CFF reserved range, U+10cB3-BF and
> U+10CF3-F9. Or possibly assign an additional block.

We have had many proposal in the last ten years, but there are still missing
code points.

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