From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri Sep 27 2002 - 09:57:30 EDT
At 04:34 +0000 2002-09-27, jameskass@att.net wrote:
>Some apps won't display a glyph from a specified font if its corresponding
>Unicode Ranges Supported bit in the OS/2 table isn't set. So, font
>developers producing fonts intended to be used with such apps set the
>corresponding bit even if only one glyph from the entire range is
>present in the font.
Good heavens.
In Mac OS X if you have a glyph with a Unicode address attached to
it, it will display in any application that can display any Unicode
character. I don't understand why a particular bit has to be set in
some table. Why can't the OS just accept what's in the font?
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