RE: Proposal (was: "Missing character" glyph)

From: Carl W. Brown (cbrown@xnetinc.com)
Date: Tue Aug 06 2002 - 18:27:24 EDT

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Peter,

> >
> >If the font cmap is Unicode encoded, then the print system must convert
> 1252
> >to Unicode first.
>
> Yes, precisely. And if the definition of 1252 on the system is old (which
> is the kind of thing I understood your illustration to mean) then the 0x80
> in the data will get converted to "Unicode" as U+0080.
>
>

This would make it easy to see that it was a bad translation not a font
problem. Thus making is faster to fix.

Carl

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