Re: Should there be a "UniGlyph" standard?

From: Roozbeh Pournader (roozbeh@sharif.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 07 2002 - 05:57:07 EST


On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, John Hudson wrote:

> The uniXXXX format names are standard. The Adobe software that makes use of
> glyph names can handle Adobe Glyph List names or names based on Unicode
> values using Adobe's glyph naming rules. Seethe Adobe docume 'Unicode and
> Glyph Names' at:
>
> http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/type/unicodegn.html *
>
> I am not aware of any software that relies on the old AFII names without
> also supporting the uniXXXX names.

I know of that, but I believe that when a glyph is in Adobe Glyph List,
one MUST use that name, and a uniXXXX one. That's how I read the 'Unicode
and Glyph Names' document. (Would someone inside Adobe explain?)

roozbeh



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