Re: Is FT_CharMap enough? Re: [Devel] CMap support for CID driver.

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Hi David,

From: David Turner <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Is FT_CharMap enough? Re: [Devel] CMap support for CID driver.
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 13:35:49 +0200

> However, we cannot perform charmap "extraction" yet using
> the current FreeType design. We could hack the library to
> do so, and we could also hack it seriously to support
> CIDCmaps and a few other things (like inspecting charmaps
> automatically to determine which scripts/languages they
> really support); finding a good interface might be _very_
> tricky..

I agree.

> However, I'm beginning to believe that this functionality
> should be placed _outside_ of FreeType, in order to be used
> by other libraries, like FT Layout, and probably a few
> others (e.g. font inspection / conversion / editing tools)

Which do you think about the following cases?

From: address@hidden
Subject: Is FT_CharMap enough? Re: [Devel] CMap support for CID driver.
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 23:16:27 +0900 (JST)

> The CIDCMap files uses as following cases.
> 
> a. convert a charcode to CID.
> b. convert a charcode to multipile charcodes. (liguature. See below)
> c. character enconding conversion. (e.g. Shift_JIS -> UCS2) (one to one)
> d. convert a charcode to a glyph name
> e. convert a charcode to a charcode (or a glyph name)
>    with another font. (Rearrange Font).


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