Unfortunately, there are at least three sources of so-called adobe-ish
short names:
a) The PostScript glyph names by Adobe
Not really standardized nor predictable. For one particular sign I was
able to uncover three different PS glyph names. Since they are glyph
names, Adobe names are too fine grained for a character set standard
in many cases.
b) X11 character names
c) SGML entities
There are several sets of standardised SGML entities concerning
characters. Unfortunately, many characters needed for transliteration
are outside the scope of the standardised sets and I don't know of any
activity to standardise more of them. For a concrete project I had to
make up a lot of new entity names. Some of them were straight forward
(Gcaron, gcaron), other not so (Blineb : B with line below,
Ddotb : d with dot below, Hbreveb : H with breve below,
Dumlb : D with diaeresis below, Eturned : Letter turned E,
Ccarondotb : C with caron and dot below). Not all of them are available
as precomposed UNicode characters.
The differences between the three sets are also somtimes annoying, tho they
agree on Aacute, they disagree on e. g.:
Adieresis (a) - Adiaeresis (b) - Auml (c)
--J"org Knappen
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