2011 July 12 Note: The information in this ReadMe.txt is obsolete, but is retained for historical purposes, as documentation of the original mapping files included in this directory. For a more current version of the Adobe glyph naming conventions, see the document "Glyph", located at: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- File name: Adobe ReadMe for Unicode 3.0 Date: 30 March 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The document "Unicode and Glyph Names," at: http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/typeforum/unicodegn.html describes Adobe's PostScript glyph naming conventions in the context of Unicode and also contains links to the following 3 database files: "The Adobe Glyph List" (AGL), which maps approximately 1000 glyph names to standard or Corporate Use subarea Unicode values. "Unicode's Corporate Use Subarea as used by Adobe." "Zapf Dingbats Glyph Names and Unicode Values." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 3 files in the current directory: stdenc.txt symbol.txt zdingbat.txt were originally provided by the Unicode Consortium for use by NeXT implementations with DPS, and continue to be provided for compatibility with those implementations. All others should refer to the files on Adobe.com mentioned above. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------