Re: [ft] Unable to add glyph to unassigned unicode value

[suzuki toshiya]

Excuse me, this list is freetype, not fontforge. If you want
to ask how to use fontforge, subscribing fontforge is better,
I think.

Regards,
mpsuzuki

Ferdinand Ramirez wrote:
> I think I did something wrong in fontforge because I am new to using 
> fontforge.
> 
> The font is correct because I downloaded it (denemo.ttf) and it works except 
> for E3C6 which I tried to add. Do you know the steps to add a new glyph in 
> the unused unicode range and make it display in gtk?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Ferdinand
> 
> --- On Fri, 8/12/11, suzuki toshiya <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> From: suzuki toshiya <address@hidden>
>> Subject: Re: [ft] Unable to add glyph to unassigned unicode value
>> To: "Ferdinand Ramirez" <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> Date: Friday, August 12, 2011, 7:07 PM
>> Excuse me, do you think as you did
>> anything wrong in
>> fontforge and ask for the solution, or, do you think
>> your font is correct but freetype show some bad behaviour?
>> If latter, please upload your font somewhere and post
>> the URL...
>>
>> Regards,
>> mpsuzuki
>>
>> Ferdinand Ramirez wrote:
>>> I have problems displaying a glyph that I added to an
>> existing font. Here are  the steps I followed.
>>> - I downloaded a font and used gtk markup language in
>> my source code to load the font and display the value for
>> 'J' on a gtk label and it worked fine.
>>> - To make sure that I made no errors, I loaded this
>> font in fontforge, double clicked on the glyph image for 'J'
>> to open the glyph in edit mode, did a Select All and copied
>> the glyph. I then edited the glyph for U+E3C6 and pasted the
>> glyph and saved it.
>>> - I then ran my program and did an sprintf of "\uE3C6"
>> into a buffer and tried to display this buffer on the gtk
>> label using the gtk markup language (this is how I displayed
>> for 'J' as well). This time, instead of displaying the
>> glyph, it just displayed the letters E3 on the top row and
>> the letters C6 on the bottom row with a small square border
>> around the letters.
>>> What steps am I missing? I am new to fontforge and any
>> help will be appreciated. My aim should be pretty simple for
>> people here - I want to use an unused unicode value and
>> display my glyph from my program. Ideally, I will want to
>> display it on gtk widgets using gtk markup language after
>> loading the font at runtime, but if you have answers for
>> other means of displaying such glyphs, I am eager to know
>> those as well.
>>> I should add that I did get an error when I did a
>> generate font which said that I'm saving the font in a
>> 1-byte encoding format and will not be able to see more than
>> 256 values. I am not sure how to overcome this error in case
>> this was the reason for my inability to display my font.
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Ferdinand
>>>
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