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Re: [ft-devel] Incomplete cmap table for platform 0 (Apple Unicode)
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Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
Re: [ft-devel] Incomplete cmap table for platform 0 (Apple Unicode) |
Date: |
Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:35:13 +0200 (CEST) |
> http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/reference/ft2-base_interface.html#FT_Select_Charmap
>
> says:
>
> "Because many fonts contain more than a single cmap for Unicode
> encoding, this function has some special code to select the one
> which covers Unicode best."
>
> So it looks like either documentation should be changed to not
> mention that FT_Select_Charmap does the best choice, or
> FT_Select_Charmap behaviour should be changed to actually "select
> the one which covers Unicode best".
With `best' it is meant that a UCS-4 cmap is preferred to a UCS-2
cmap. I've clarified this in the docs.
Werner