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

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

Mark Johnson
> 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)?
>
> What do people think about this?

I’m in favor of using existing character blocks where it makes sense to do so.

There are 8 “arrowhead” characters at 02C2~5 and 02EF~F2. They are
intended as phonetic modifiers, so I don’t know whether we should
co-opt them for line directions in SMuFL. Also these 8 face only the 4
cardinal directions, no other angles. Would it be enough to define a
small number arrowheads and recommend that software rotate them as
necessary or draw similar shapes from primitives?

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