Re: svg feta/unicode

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I am trying to convert the feta font and add unicode encodings to
> them.

Don't do that.  It doesn't work.

> The problem is that unicode doesn't have glyphs for many
> articulations and expressions but rather assumes combinations glyphs
> to make such glyphs as a prall etc.

Unicode has *no* code points for the feta glyphs, and right so.

Remember that Unicode is a character code for information exchange,
and it is not suited to enumerate glyphs.

We plan to make fontforge map feta glyphs automatically to the PUA --
this is for internal use only, since for technical reasons the Pango
library needs Unicode character codes for input.

The only way to access feta glyphs reliably is to use glyph names, as
it is done in Type 1 fonts, for example.


    Werner