On 10/08/2002 03:05:50 PM YTang0648 wrote:
>I quickly look at it. It seems TrueType font use Symbol encoding. Is there any >documentation about how to convert the Unicode to the glyph code? Is there any >public documentation about that glyph set or glyph id used in these fonts? Not that I know of. Having taken a quick glance at a couple of the fonts, it looks to me like there is some significant re-working one would need to do to make any use of these in a Unicode-based implementation. In effect, if you want to do Unicode, these fonts might be useful for the glyph outlines, but not much more. That doesn't mean they're not of any use at all, but it would take a font engineer to make usable Unicode-conforming fonts, and it's possible (I don't know whether this applies or not) that there may be issues with the outlines that would call for more type design work. (For instance, in an OpenType or Graphite font, one might want to create complete ligature glyphs rather than using sequences of partial typeforms, one might want to refine some contextual forms that may been designed with comromises due to the effective 222 glyph limit when working with custom, 8-bit, presentation-form encodings, or one might want to refine things like metrics or default diacritic position, again, to throw off compromises that may have been made to work within an old-technology implementation). IMO, anyway. - Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Constable Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA Tel: +1 972 708 7485 E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
