[smufl-discuss] Re: Arrows (Was: Additional glyphs)

[dspreadbury]

Ahmed wrote:

> Emil wrote:
>
> > By the way: there was a misunderstanding concerning vertical
> > arrows, that are currently encoded at U+E689 and U+E68A. I suggested
> > these glyphs and mentioned their meaning as sharper/flatter
> > intonation, but I did not write what I meant, and I did not point
> > out that they are used in a certain variety of meanings (like the
> > one discussed now). My sincere apologies for this vagueness, I
> > suggest to move them to the general articulation range.
>
> Indeed, I didn't pay attention to this symbols since it is located
> in vocal techniques. I was expected to find this kind of arrows in
> guitar category (I'm a guitarist) or in an other more general.

Perhaps we should consider making it a recommendation that SMuFL-compliant
fonts should encode some or all of the range of 'Arrows' defined in the
Unicode standard between 2190–21FF (112 glyphs)?

http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2190.pdf

What do people think about this?

This doesn't help with arrow*heads* specifically, of course.  There
doesn't seem to be a complete block of these defined in Unicode, but there
are some in the 'Miscellaneous technical' range:

http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2300.pdf

Daniel

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