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9 years 4 months ago #1 by Sir Lee
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  • Uh, two points here:

    First is, we have our first NEW Library story, and it's not very clear where should the general discussions about it go. Should they go into "Story evaluations", where there is a section for that, but my understanding is that is intended more for semi-formal reviews? Or should it go into"Story arc discussions?"

    Second, and more technical... what ARE supposed to be the U+F0B7 characters in "Chain of Custody?" Ten seconds of Googling tell me that is smack dab in the "private use" range, that is, there are NO STANDARDS about what that character is supposed to look like. They show different in each browser I tried (special font with the hex value in Firefox, small blue empty boxes in Chrome, blank spaces with some rendering errors in IE). The best result I got was loading the story in Word, where they showed up as bullets... but if that was the intent, there's a well-documented bullet glyph in Unicode. Not to mention that I really don't see the point (if you pardon my pun) to add two more bullets after the one created by the bulleted list.

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    9 years 4 months ago - 9 years 4 months ago #2 by E M Pisek
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  • This is what I found for the U+F0B7.

    This is a Private Use codepoint. That is, it is deliberately not assigned to any character. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 and belongs to the block Private Use Area.

    Edit: More info. Sorry if you knew this already.

    Private Use Area

    Block from U+E000 to U+F8FF. This block was introduced in Unicode version 1.0 (-). It contains 0 codepoints.

    The Wikipedia provides the following information on block Private Use Area:

    In Unicode, a Private Use Area (PUA) is a range of code points that, by definition, will not be assigned characters by the Unicode Consortium. Currently, three private use areas are defined: one in the Basic Multilingual Plane (U+E000–U+F8FF), and one each in, and nearly covering, planes 15 and 16 (U+F0000–U+FFFFD, U+100000–U+10FFFD). The code points in these areas cannot be considered as standardized characters in Unicode itself. They are intentionally left undefined so that third parties may define their own characters without conflicting with Unicode Consortium assignments. Under the Unicode Stability Policy, the Private Use Areas will remain allocated for that purpose in all future Unicode versions.

    Assignments to Private Use Area characters need not be "private" in the sense of strictly internal to an organisation; a number of assignment schemes have been published by several organisations. Such publication may include a font that supports the definition (showing the glyphs), and software making use of the private-use characters (e.g. a graphics character for a "print document" function). By definition, multiple private parties may assign different characters to the same code point, with the consequence that a user may see one private character from an installed font where a different one was intended.

    This block has not defined any codepoints between U+E000 and U+F8FF.

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    9 years 4 months ago #3 by Kristin Darken
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  • It looked fine in Dreamweaver (as regular bullet points). I then copy/pasted from the code panel in Dreamweaver into the site's new article editor.

    If you feel like some differentiation needs to be made for Library comments, just add [Library] into the subject name of any thread that's about a Library title. You can do the same thing with 2nd Gen stories, if people need clarification there too ... ie [Gen 2]

    I'd rather not have forty different forums sections, especially given that most sections only add one or two new threads each week.

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