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Originally Posted by hobnail
How are code points used in html, with the numeric html entity?
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As far as I know--and I don't lay claim to being some world-class font expert, by any means--you simply use the same information that you do for any other character, that isn't a typical glyph (a, b, c...) in an HTML environment. Some are used sort of cross-fonts, like using the HTML entities for ellipses, let's say. ike a required space, ellipses, etc, but some--let's say the Abramo Serif Double-Dagger--you'd embed that using the Hex 0x2021 (which is the "codepoint" for that character in that font).
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(The font itself doesn't work here, but that's what the character would look like in whatever font this is, here in MR.) Or the "per mille" sign:
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But, alas, alack, if a font does not have that--no Hex, no nuthin', there can't be a way to use it, outside of the fairly narrow universe of Adobe and other PRINT layout programs--right? FYI, the "codepoints" for both of those, above, the double dagger and the per-mille, are the same across most fonts.
Aren't we talking the "private use" codepoints in Unicode, or am I starting to lose my marbles here?
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