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Re: [ft-devel] cmap0 confusions
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [ft-devel] cmap0 confusions |
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Fri, 14 Oct 2016 09:33:20 +0200 (CEST) |
> While looking at those old Apple testing fonts from 1997. I found
> very weird cmap0's in hebrew and arabic fonts. First, those fonts
> do not have ASCII glyphs for the range 0x20-0x7F. Second, they
> still map the ASCII range to some special hebrew/arabic characters.
> This totally confuses me because Apple Hebrew and Apple Arabic are
> described with proper ASCII range in the documentation
> ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/ . How is this
> even legal? Are they using some undocumented tricks to setup cmap
> format 0?
Fortunately, it's definitely legal! However, it might be invalid :-)
To be serious, I don't know such details, alas. Maybe there is Mac
veteran on the list who can give more details...
Werner