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Re:Unicode Proposal – Textile Care Symbols by leoedin on Thursday April 22, 2021 @07:33AM (#26901548)
Are fonts consistently localised? What happens if the pool of people who use a font (eg Arial) contain multiple washing symbol regions? Do you spin up a new, localised font for every country?
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Re:Unicode Proposal – Textile Care Symbols by TheRealPomax on Thursday April 22, 2021 @12:10PM (#26904419)
No, you simply rely on your tooling, which should allow you to set the locale (or "script", which is the OpenType term for it) for your content.

Thankfully, a lot of tooling designed to present text to a human (From Word to LaTeX to HTML) already have ways to do this, so folks writing textile documentation will now be able to take advantage of this, too.

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