What you are looking for is the mapping of Adobe PS glyph names to Unicode
characters. This is contained in a document called the Adobe Glyph List,
which can be found online along with Adobe's extended glyph naming rules at
http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/type/unicodegn.html
Note that these rules were revised last year to provide a mechanism for
naming characters from the supplementary planes using 32-bit scalar values.
This revision has not yet been made to the online document. (Eric, can you
provide any indication on when this document will be updated?)
John Hudson
At 10:29 2/19/2002, Magda Danish (Unicode) wrote:
>Can someone on the list help me respond to this query. Thanks.
>Magda.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>
>From: Kevin Brown <graphity@adelaide.on.net>
>Date: 2002-02-18 21:05:52 -0800
>To: <info@unicode.org>
>Subject: list of abbreviated character names
>
>Hello
>
>I work professionally with type and am constantly using your website for
>reference.
>
>I am desperately looking for a list which gives NOT the full character
>description given in the Names List (eg LATIN CAPITAL S WITH CARON) but
>the abbreviated name (eg Scaron)
>
>This extremely useful shorthand method of naming the glyphs is used in
>font-editing applications such as Fontographer and FontLab.
>
>Does such an official list exist?
>
>If so, can you please direct me to where I can download it?
>
>Many thanks
>
>Regards
>
>Kevin Brown
>
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