From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Fri Nov 14 2003 - 06:11:55 EST
On 14/11/2003 00:20, Philippe Verdy wrote:
>From: <jameskass@att.net>
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>>Please see
>>http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/recom.htm
>>... the section about "Shape of .notdef glyph"
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>Thanks for pointing a Microsoft recommandation for the undefined glyph
>(glyph id=0) that every TT font should implement (so this would affect also
>OT fonts).
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>But there are several fonts in Windows and Office that still display a
>normal question mark for this glyph ID, instead of a narrow white box as
>expected (this may be a caveat within the system compatibility font mappings
>with system fonts which are not TrueType but simple .FON bitmap fonts)...
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This is probably because Windows is first mapping your Unicode text on
to a system code page. The normal behaviour with characters which don't
have a compatibility type mapping is to map them to "?".
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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