At 08:29 3/7/2002, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> > For glyph names in the AGL, you can use either the AGL name, or the
> > uniXXXX name.
>
>This is something I am not sure about. As I read the document, you must
>use the AGL name.
Section 2.c.i of the document does suggest that the AGL name should be used
if present, but I suspect that this is something that Adobe might want to
revise when they add the information about supplementary plane characters.
The technology that relies on the glyph naming conventions -- with the
exception of older software that does not handle Unicode -- does not
require AGL names to be used in preference to uniXXXX names. Indeed, there
was a brief period when Adobe's euro character support was only partially
implemented in which using /uni20AC/ produced better results that /Euro/.
When Paul Nelson and I were discussing glyph naming for the Arabic
Typesetting font, I recall consulting Adobe about using uniXXXX names in
place of the AFII Arabic names in the AGL. I can't find the messages, but
the eventual decision was to use the uniXXXX names.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com
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