Re: Support for symbol fonts

From: Rick McGowan (rmcgowan@apple.com)
Date: Fri Jul 23 1999 - 13:47:14 EDT


Frank Tang wrote:

> Also, does anyone know any BDF/TrueType font which encode the following
> three encodings which posted under
> ftp://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/ADOBE ?
> stdenc.txt
> symbol.txt
> zdingbat.txt

I don't know of any, but "stdenc.txt" is the Adobe Standard Encoding, and
I'm sure someone must have BDF files somewhere that implement that encoding,
if not for the others.

> Also, can someone put the creator and contact person of these mapping into
> those file instead of saying
>  # Contact <unicode-inc@unicode.org> with any questions or comments.

I created those three mapping files many years ago, so you can direct
questions to me. Also, please read the "Readme.txt" in the Adobe directory,
which tells you how to contact Adobe and what these three files are.

        Rick



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