Re: [ft] Prevent synthesis of Unicode charmap?

[Antony Lee]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 10:07 PM Alexei Podtelezhnikov <address@hidden>
wrote:

> > Is there a way to prevent FreeType from synthesizing a Unicode charmap,
> or
> at least clearly identifying the synthesized charmap as such?
>
> FT_Get_CMap_Format will return -1 for synthetic cmaps in TrueType
> fonts, but also return -1 for all non-TrueType cmaps
>
> The synthetic cmap is added last, which makes the original cmap first.
>
> > In practice, right now we just look up a charmap with either
> TT_ADOBE_ID_STANDARD or TT_ADOBE_ID_CUSTOM encoding, which essentially
> works.
>
> This is a great solution. The synthetic cmap would not set those.
> Disabling the synthetic unicode is actually a bad solution. You can
> disable the psnames module but other applications would not like
> that.
>

Thanks for the information.