🚀 go-pugleaf

bkph@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn) writes:
>In article <9819@fs3.cam.nist.gov> koontz@cam.nist.gov (John E. Koontz X5180) writes:
>   It would be nice to see a discussion of how existing applications of
>   various sorts and existing fonts (including fonts with the Dingbat
>   symbol set, as Howell has suggested) might be adapted to work with
>   UNICODE.
>UNICODE contains all of the Zapf Dingbats (as well as countless other random
>symbols, operators, relations, delimiters, roadkills, what have you)

Why on earth would it include the Zapf Dingbats?
A "Dingbat symbol set" is oxymoronic. Why map Minion-Ornaments
leaf at 113 to the Zapf splat at 104 or 105? Or should it
be mapped to the voting box at 113?

Mapping dingbats in Unicode is effectively saying
"Put random thingies here." Unless, of course, you want
to be able to count on having those checkmarks and hands, in
which case we still don't have a place for my Utopia leaf
at position 49.