Re: Font packaging and Unicode Private Use Areas
> 1. What's the best practice for fonts that occupies PUA plane?
> ...
> My personall opinion is to do nothing more than adding a notice to
> package description, saying that "this package ships a font that
> occupies the whole Unicode PUA plane 16".
My opinion is go ahead and create a font that uses all of Plane 16.
I am not a Debian Developer, but I am the Debian Maintainer of the GNU
unifont package, which has a variant that uses the PUA in Plane 0 and
Plane 15.
The unifont package includes one variant that contains glyphs from the
ConScript Unicode Registry (CSUR)[1] and the Under-CSUR[2]. The CSUR
is a popular PUA assignment because it contains scripts such as
Tengwar and Klingon. Almost all of its scripts are in Plane 0. A
couple of very large scripts are in Plane 15.
Another important set of PUA 0 assignments is that of the Medieval
Unicode Font Initiative (MUFI)[3].
I do not know if any other font in Debian uses Plane 16, but I think
it would be rare if one exists and likely for a very different purpose
than what you intend.
Good luck!
Paul Hardy
[1] https://www.evertype.com/standards/csur/
[2] https://www.kreativekorp.com/ucsur/
[3] https://folk.uib.no/hnooh/mufi/
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