Re: [ft-devel] FT_Get_Char, FT_Get_Next_Char

[Werner LEMBERG]

>>> I'm getting the following output:
>>> 
>>> Num glyphs: 3
>>> char: 32 (index = 1)
>>> char: 160 (index = 1)
>>> How do I get the last char ? (or did I do something wrong ?)
>> 
>> Without seeing the font this can't be answered.  For example,
>> character code 160 might map to the `space' glyph, having glyph
>> index 1 also.
> 
> The actual question was related to the number of glyphs (3) and the
> use of first/next char.  Am I not supposed to be able to get all
> glyphs using them?  Obviously I only get 2 of them while I would
> have expect 3.

I think this is a bug in FreeType.

This font has three glyphs:

  0  .notdef
  1  space
  2  a77

If you use `ftdump -v' (from a recent FreeType version), you can see
this:

  charmaps
     0: platform 3, encoding 1, language 0 (active)
        0x0020 => 1
        0x00a0 => 1

     1: platform 7, encoding 2, language 0
        0x0020 => 1
        0x0074 => 2

Platform/encoding pair (3,1) is Unicode, (7,2) is Adobe custom
encoding.  Only the latter is contained within the font, the Unicode
charmap gets synthesized by FreeType.  And here is the problem: The
glyph with name `a77' has a canonical mapping to Unicode character
U+25BC (as can be seen in file `zapfdingbats.txt' from the Adobe Glyph
List), but FreeType doesn't handle zapfdingbats.txt; this is an
oversight.

Note, however, that in subsetted CFFs (as part of PDF files) you
normally have a lot of glyphs which can't be accessed by Unicode
character codes.  If you are going to handle PDF files, you *must*
work with glyph names.


    Werner