Re: Unicode TTF question

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Wed Aug 24 2005 - 15:07:32 CDT

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At 18:06 +0100 2005-08-24, Bob Hallissy wrote:

>It is technically impossible, at least as far as TrueType and OpenType are
>concerned, as these formats can contain a maximum of 65535 glyphs, and
>there are more characters than that in Unicode.

Why can't that be changed? Just curious.

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Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com

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