On Sunday 24 March 2002 05:52, James A. Crippen wrote:
| 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.
So you suggest we should use Adobe-Japan1 encoding to render Russian glyphs?..
What's wrong with current AFII encoding?
|
| Someday perhaps Adobe will do a CMap for Unicode fonts... Someday...
|
| 'james
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