The answer is that surrogates are not represented in the cmap. Instead, they
can be represented as a ligature, either in TrueType 2.0 from Apple or
OpenType from MicroSoft and Adobe.
Here are some relevant links (or you can do a websearch with
www.metacrawler.com):
http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/devrelations/opentype/main.htm
http://www.maccentral.com/features/112297_qd.shtml
http://fonts.apple.com/WhitePapers/GXvsOTLayout.html.
http://www.truetype.demon.co.uk/ttgx.htm
Mark Davis
Werner Lemberg wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> just recently I've looked into the Unicode web pages. The next major
> release (to appear next year?) seems to already have characters allocated
> in the surrogate area -- now my question:
>
> how will such surrogate characters represented in a cmap of a TrueType
> font?
>
> Werner
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