[Devel] Re-encoding interface requested?

[Sander van der Wal]

Hi

A couple of weeks ago (8 jan 2001) Leonard Rosenthol had a problem
with custom encodings for Type 1 fonts and CFF fonts having no cmap.

I have the same problems (because I am also doing a PDF viewer) and I
think that the solution is to add a function to the public interface
of freetype2. Right now there's FT_Get_Char_Index, to translate a
character code to a glyph index. If there would be a function

FT_UInt   FT_Get_Glyphname_Index(FT_Face* face, const FT_String*
glyph_name)

that returned the glyph index based on the glyph name, client
applications could do the re-encoding themselves.

Is this a reasonable way? I can work on the implementations.

Sander van der Wal