RE: Latin w/ diacritics (was Re: benefits of unicode)

[John Hudson]

At 10:48 AM 4/18/2001 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> >> In TrueType/OpenType, glyphs don't have to be mapped (assigned to
> >> code points).
> >
> >This is a myth that I hope to see eradicated as soon as possible.
>
>Marco, you are generating a myth that I hope not to see catch on. James is
>absolutely right.

I think Marco is interpreting 'mapping' to include mapping via 
glyph-to-glyph-to-character lookups (indirect mapping). However, since the 
original comment defined mapped glyphs as 'assigned to code points', it is 
pretty obvious that the author meant direct mapping.

John Hudson

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