At 04:22 PM 3/5/02 -0500, **** wrote:
>Should there not be a "UniGlyph" encoding, for use by font designers,
>etc., which would encode these glyph variants? People who type text do so
>in Unicode, then the font internally converts it to UniGlyph in
>preparation for display.
>If nothing else, UniGlyph would provide a convenient checklist of needed
>glyph variants for a given font.
This was tried at one point, and was called the AFII glyph registry.
However, glyph enumeration is tricky and the project died a slow and
agonizing death from lack of interest. AFII eventually went out of business
at the turn of the millenium.
A./
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