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Glyph registration / treatment

  • The issue of Glyph registration for ISO (AFII) is dead, although a glyph registrar still formally exists.
  • Does it make sense for TEI to act as glyph registrar? Maybe. The most promising solution would be for user communities to handle such glyph registries in their fields.
  • With the Variance Indicator mechanism newly introduced in Unicode, well established and researched lists of variants could be incorporated into the Unicode Standard(although the barriers for this are rather high).
  • Codepoints of variance indicators are not available for users to indicate their own variants. The TEI Conortium could set aside an area of PUA codepoints for this purpose if it sees the need for this. (But this contradicts the stated intention of not recommending the use of PUA codepoints.)