Re: Another licensing issue

2004-03-19 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Well, the list may not be complete as the Unicode standard in always in flux. At any rate, I think the character name list is used to map the names to unicode character, so you can map unicode characters to a font's glyph index. So it's primarily a matter for custom multibyte fonts like TrueType

Another licensing issue

2004-03-18 Thread Peter B. West
Jeremias et al, I would like ti use the Unicode Character Database as a source for names of characters. At the moment, ...fonts.Glyphs contains a static table of String pairs containing the Unicode character and its name, respectively. The names are not the Unicode Character Database names,

Re: Another licensing issue

2004-03-18 Thread Peter B. West
Jeremias, The penny just dropped about the names of the Unicode characters; they are the Adobe Glyph List and the Zapf Dingbats Glyph List names of a subset of Unicode characters. Won't we at some stage need to generalise support for a wider set of glyphs? Or is that entirely a matter for