I recently heard from Ken Lunde at Adobe that new versions of the
official Adobe CMaps are being released, one by one. The UCS2 and
UTF8 CMaps are being replaced with a series of UTF{8,16,32}
automatically generated from UTF32 CMaps.
Mr. Lunde has made mappings for Adobe-Japan2-0, Adobe-Korea1-2, and
Adobe-CNS1-4 CMaps available with the new UTF encodings. The others
will are forthcoming later this spring/summer.
Also the Adobe-Japan1 CMap is being upgraded to Supplement 5, aka
Adobe-Japan1-5. This will "probably" include the additional
characters used in the Hiragino fonts distributed with Apple's MacOS X
10.1, as well as other revisions. ISTR a figure like 5000 new glyphs
being added, but my memory might be incorrect. The additional glyphs
will include a large number of Unicode's Latin Extended-[AB], IPA
Extensions, Spacing Modifiers, Combining Diacriticals, etc, thus
bringing Adobe-Japan1 closer to being a complete Unicode mapping for
the Latin, Greek, and Russian alphabets, as well as serving the
needs of Japanese fonts and typesetting.
Someday perhaps Adobe will do a CMap for Unicode fonts... Someday...
'james
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