Message text written by Werner LEMBERG >What about the many PS printers which have Adobe's symbol font built in? I'm really interested in any constructive idea how to solve the problem in a realistic way. Buying new fonts just for this purpose is not realistic IMHO.<
I don't think that is a problem. The Symbol font has a "custom encoding" or "special encoding" (you choose the name). It is a 1-byte (8-bit) font, whose encoding is completely separate from Unicode. Non-Unicode fonts will continue to be used well beyond our lifetimes. Actually, the only time a non-Unicode encoding needs to be reckoned with in detail is if that font is used as a component font of a composite font. For example, if a UTF-16 font is assembled using 1-byte fonts as components from which to reference glyphs. Of course, it depends on the OS and application to correctly handle encoding differences of various fonts; some do and some don't. John F. -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
