At 12:55 5/29/2002, John M. Fiscella wrote:
I would go further than that: if the font contains *any* properly named
composite glyph, that it should be used in place of a base glyph +
combining mark glyph representing normalized text, *even if the composite
glyph is not encoded in Unicode/10646*. Such is the beauty of a parseable
standard glyph naming scheme.
There are plenty of TrueType fonts -- including many Asian fonts -- with
version 3.0 'post' tables that do not contain glyph names.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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