Unicode 10 support across releases

[Alexander Ploumistos]

Hello all,

I am going to update the gdouros-symbola font to the newest version,
which contains Unicode 10 glyphs. I have kind of lost track of things,
so I would like to ask if there is a fedora release that shouldn't or
wouldn't make sense to get the update?

Thanks,
Alex

Hi,

I'm quite sure deploying a font that supports a newer unicode revision than the base
system is ok. The various font utilises won't know to look for new glyphs and
gucharmap won't show pretty name for those glyphs, that's all.

That may cause some codepoints to be deprecated earlier than the base system expects, but
Unicode.org is so conservative, I doubt it will cause any significant harm.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot

[Alexander Ploumistos]

Thanks Nicolas,

I just saw that F25 and later had got the Unicode 9 update, so I'll do
the same with this one. I will push it later today or on Friday, after
I have verified and amended the font coverage details.

Best regards,
Alex

[Kevin Kofler]

nicolas.mailhot(a)laposte.net wrote:
>  I'm quite sure deploying a font that supports a newer unicode
> revision
>  than the base system is ok. The various font utilises won't know to look
>  for new glyphs and gucharmap won't show pretty name for those glyphs,
>  that's all. 
And not even necessarily all of them. KCharSelect is typically updated along 
with the other KDE applications.

        Kevin Kofler