Re: Printing UTF8 (Unicode)

From	Carlos <carlos@cvkm.cz>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.postscript
Subject	Re: Printing UTF8 (Unicode)
Date	2022-02-10 15:05 +0100
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On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 14:59:09 +1100
David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com> wrote:
> No font is guaranteed to use any of these names and many fonts that
> I've examined use different names for unicode values (and different
> values for some names.)
> 
> > If you know you are dealing with modern fonts that include the uni/u
> > aliases, you can get rid of the Adobe table lookup altogether... You
> > don't need the canonical glyph names for those fonts.  
> 
> No font that I've examined includes uni/u names for every glyph, or
> even for most glyphs.
> 
> One can't rely on any pre-determined glyph name, nor any
> pre-determined lookup table.  What a mess.

Well, that's disappointing...

> After your comment about older fonts, I examined Courier, a Type 1
> font
> (https://web.archive.org/web/20010617080950/http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/courier/).
> The CharStrings array breaks my assumptions and my code completely
> fails.

What assumptions?

C.

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  Re: Printing UTF8 (Unicode) Carlos <carlos@cvkm.cz> - 2022-01-21 14:23 +0100
    Re: Printing UTF8 (Unicode) David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com> - 2022-01-22 12:27 +1100
  Re: Printing UTF8 (Unicode) David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com> - 2022-01-23 13:31 +1100
    Re: Printing UTF8 (Unicode) Carlos <carlos@cvkm.cz> - 2022-01-23 13:35 +0100
      Re: Printing UTF8 (Unicode) David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com> - 2022-01-26 14:59 +1100
        Re: Printing UTF8 (Unicode) Carlos <carlos@cvkm.cz> - 2022-02-10 15:05 +0100
          Re: Printing UTF8 (Unicode) David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com> - 2022-02-16 13:55 +1100
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