. Quoting from David Lemon's letter to the OpenType list from 2002-11-27: <quot> There are many glyphs in fonts Adobe has shipped which are not covered in the AGL, and others which map to PUA values even though Unicode has since defined real character slots. The “Adobe Glyph List”, which maps glyph names to Unicode values, is not intended to be anything more than a description of what some software does, or has done, with these names. As such, it has not kept pace with the additions to Unicode, and we expect it will not change. It is definitely not a recommendation that font developers use these names (e.g. we recommend the form uni23D0 rather than arrowvertex). </quot>
The new Adobe AGL has been discussed at length on the OpenType list, a more appropriate forum. The bottom line is that the new AGL isn't aimed at font developers and developers of new fonts are urged to use "uniXXXX" post names for BMP glyphs (even for basic ASCII glyphs) and "uXXXXX(X)" names for non-BMP glyphs. Best regards, James Kass.
