description

Description of a Private Character

Human-readable description of a defined private character (for example, “Arrow, normal weight, single line, two-headed, Northwest to Southeast”).

Remarks

The @name attribute for a defined private character <private-char> provides a Unicode-style name (an all uppercase name) for the private character, for example, “COMBINING CYRILLIC PALATALIZATION”. In contrast, the @description attribute for a defined private character <private-char> provides a rough visual description, for example, “combining vertical tilde”.

Used on Element: <private-char>

ValueMeaning
Text, numbers, or special charactersA rough visual description of the appearance of the <private-char> character, for example, “Greek capital letter omega with tonos”.
Restriction@description is an optional attribute; there is no default.

Example

...
<p>... The map symbol indicating these conditions will be a
<private-char name="BentArrow" 
  description="Symbol - right arrow bending up over right arrow bending down">
<glyph-data id="pc5001" format="PBM" resolution="300" x-size="15" y-size="28">
000000000001000
000000000011100
000000000111110
000000001111111
000000000001000
000000000001000
000000000001000
000000000001000
000000000001000
000000000001000
000000000001000
000000000001000
111111111110000
000000000000000
000000000000000
111111111110000
000000000001000
000000000001000
000000000001000
000000000001000
000000000001000
000000000001000
000000000001000
000000000001000
000000001111111
000000000111110
000000000011100
000000000001000
</glyph-data></private-char>. The NOAA 1993 standard definition of
<private-char name="BentArrow" 
  description="Symbol - right arrow bending up over right arrow bending down">
<glyph-ref glyph-data="pc5001"/>
</private-char> will apply.</p>
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