Around 8 o'clock on Nov 21, Brian Stell wrote:

> I look at the ulUnicodeRange fields, which list the supported
> "codepages", to get a language hint.
> http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/os2.htm
> While this looks to be useful I do not have enough in-field use
> to speak authoritatively either way.

Hmm.  That table seems to only hint at which glyphs are available in the 
font; not what languages the font is "designed" for.  Given that I'm 
already computing the actual set of glyphs in every font (at some 
considerable expense), it's not clear how I should approach this new 
information.

Here's a thought -- those bits might form a helpful shorthand notation for 
unicode subsets; right now, I've no convenient representation for them.  

I can see how applications might want to create a font pattern that places
greater emphasis on faces which are likely to cover a significant fraction
of the document, this shorthand might make Unicode subsets easier to 
represent when using the ListFonts interfaces.

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