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Werner said:
>Here my proposal to partly fix the problem. It won't help for
pre-Unicode 3.0 documents but it should enable software to use older
fonts which use Adobe Glyph Names with recent Unicode.
. Adobe should fix the mapping in AGL's `glyphlist.txt' since the
AGL identifies glyph shapes. Thus `phi' is the stroked glyph and
`phi1' the curly version. I'm referring to Adobe's `Symbol' font
version 001.007 -- most PS printers have this font built in.
phi 03D5
phi1 03C6
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The problem with this is that the preferred 'text' form for the lower Greek
alphabet is the glyph shown in Unicode 3.0 Book @ U+03C6, which is the
glyph found in most fonts having the Greek alphabet, including TNR. That
glyph should not be rightly identified with a glyphname of an alternate
glyph (phi1). The fact that Adobe's Symbol font glyph naming was inherently
inconsistent with Unicode was known since before Unicode 2.0, but it was
deemed irrelevant, since Symbol encoding was not any official standard. Our
fonts contain both glyphs (and additional alternates as well) and are
consistent with Unicode 3.0.
John F.
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