Re: [ft-devel] Incomplete cmap table for platform 0 (Apple Unicode)

[Werner LEMBERG]

> How an application can decide which cmap table is better without
> digging into internal cmap data?

It can't.

> Shouldn't that be a responsibility of Freetype to ignore
> incomplete/broken cmaps, especially since it already parses cmap
> tables

No.  It does reject broken cmaps, but a valid, imcomplete cmap can't
be ignored.

> and can easily decide which one is better?

The `easily' is the critical word.  I can imagine that there are cases
where different cmaps for Apple and Microsoft make sense, for example,
mapping glyphs into the PUA.  So again, the answer is `no'.  However,
MS cmaps are now preferred over Apple ones for both UCS-4 and UCS-2
cmaps.


    Werner