RE: dotless j

From: Christopher J. Fynn (cfynn@dircon.co.uk)
Date: Wed Jul 07 1999 - 08:57:14 EDT


Curtis Clark wrote:

> At 06:41 PM 7/5/99 -0700, Christopher J. Fynn wrote:
> >One problem is that there are font editors which either insist that you
> >assign a "Unicode" cmap value - or which assign one by default when
> >generating
> >a TrueType font.
>
> When you clear the Unicode index for a Fontlab glyph, it assigns the glyph
> to the next available PUA slot.

Assigning an encoding value in the PUA is still giving a glyph a Unicode
character encoding even if that encoding is for an undefined PUA character.
In the case of a composite presentation form the end user can still access
the glyph by entering that PUA character rather than entering the actual
characters that glyph represents. Utilities like the "Unicode Character Map"
in Windows NT should probably perform a reverse substitution - substituting
the proper characters for the glyph selected when a glyph is selected from
the PUA and the font contains character to glyph substitution tales.
  



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