Re: [docbook] How To Write Non-Unicode Symbol?

[Klaus Malorny <Klaus.Malorny@knipp.de>]

On 26.05.23 16:12, Dave Pawson wrote:
> ሴ is simplest, assumes your document is utf-8
>
> HTH
>
> On Fri, 26 May 2023 at 15:01, Michael Urban <urban@panix.com> wrote:
> > What Unicode construct has the best semantics for representing an
> > oddball non-Unicode character?  If I am writing a novel in which
> > there is a currency symbol, the Quatloo, represented by a glyph
> > from a custom font (say, a Q with three lines through it), how should
> > I write it?  <phrase role="quatloo">Q</phrase>?
> >
> > It's inconsequential, since I can do whatever I please--this document
> > will not be exported to anyone, after all--but I'd like to get it 'right'
> > in some way.  So, it's just a matter of my curiosity here.

Hi,

I hope that &#x1234; was only an example. U+1234 is a valid, existing 
code point in Unicode, "ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE SEE". If you need a 
placeholder until you know the code point in your custom font, use a 
code point from the "private use areas", E000-F8FF, F0000-FFFFF or 
100000-10FFFD.

Or define an XML entity and use it throughout your document.

<!ENTITY quatloo "#quatloo#">

and use &quatloo; within your text. At a later point in time you can 
replace the definition with the code point or you can search throughout 
your document and replace the entity by additional markup, if need be.

Klaus