Re: PUA glyphs in fonts (was: Is it true that Unicode is insufficient for Oriental languages?)

At 08:58 AM 5/26/2003, Peter_Constable@xxxxxxx wrote:

> > I don't agree, most GSUB tables found in OpenType fonts use PUA
> > codepoints to remap standard Unicode characters to sequences of
> > glyphs
>
>Insofar as GSUB tables are processing glyph identifiers and not characters,
>this is simply not true. The fact that those fonts may happen to have the
>glyphs in question mapped from PUA codepoints in the cmap table is
>coincidental, and IMO not best practice.

Adobe used PUA for otherwise unencoded glyph variants in their initial OT 
fonts. They have since ceased this practice and are paddling as fast as 
they can in the opposite direction.

John Hudson

Tiro Typeworks          www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC           tiro@xxxxxxxx

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