From: jameskass@att.net
Date: Wed Jan 01 2003 - 06:33:49 EST
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Quoting from David Lemon's letter to the OpenType list
from 2002-11-27:
<quot>
There are many glyphs in fonts Adobe has shipped which are not
covered in the AGL, and others which map to PUA values even though
Unicode has since defined real character slots. The “Adobe Glyph
List”, which maps glyph names to Unicode values, is not intended to
be anything more than a description of what some software does, or
has done, with these names. As such, it has not kept pace with the
additions to Unicode, and we expect it will not change. It is
definitely not a recommendation that font developers use these names
(e.g. we recommend the form uni23D0 rather than arrowvertex).
</quot>
The new Adobe AGL has been discussed at length on the
OpenType list, a more appropriate forum.
The bottom line is that the new AGL isn't aimed at
font developers and developers of new fonts are urged
to use "uniXXXX" post names for BMP glyphs (even for
basic ASCII glyphs) and "uXXXXX(X)" names for non-BMP
glyphs.
Best regards,
James Kass.
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