Re: Supporting stylistic sets

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: समीर सिंह Sameer Singh <lumarzeli30@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2022 13:30:00 +0530
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
>  You are thinking about one particular use case.  There might be
>  others.
> 
> What might be the other use cases? 

I don't really know.  That was a comment asking for responses from
anyone who could know.

>  Btw, is it always the case that, when using a particular font, users
>  will want to apply the same stylistic-set feature to all of the
>  characters from the font that have alternative glyphs?  If not, then
>  font-level feature sets are not going to solve that, and we will need
>  to be able to specify this for each character individually.
> 
> There are different stylistic-set features for different glyphs.
> For example in FiraCode to change "a" there is cv01, for "g" cv02 etc.

Then font-level specification of this would not be as simple as was
originally suggested, I think: the characters were missing from that
suggestion.