At 04:22 PM 3/5/02 -0500, **** wrote: >Should there not be a "UniGlyph" encoding, for use by font designers, >etc., which would encode these glyph variants? People who type text do so >in Unicode, then the font internally converts it to UniGlyph in >preparation for display. >If nothing else, UniGlyph would provide a convenient checklist of needed >glyph variants for a given font.
This was tried at one point, and was called the AFII glyph registry. However, glyph enumeration is tricky and the project died a slow and agonizing death from lack of interest. AFII eventually went out of business at the turn of the millenium. A./
