Re: [ft-devel] problems with synthetic cmaps

[Alexei Podtelezhnikov]

>>>   (1) Don't synthesize a Unicode cmap map for symbol OpenType fonts
>>>      (i.e., fonts having a (3,0) cmap).
>>>
>>>   (2) Discard a synthesized Unicode cmap if the number of mappings is
>>>       much lower than the mappings in another cmap of the font.
>
> Since Wingdings and Webdings are in Unicode 7.0, any objection to
>
> (3) Improve synthetic Unicode map by adding the missing PostScript
> names for the fonts in question.

I found everything to implement (3)
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12368-n4384.pdf
but after reading this
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11309-apple-resp-n4127.pdf
implemented (1).

It would be too much work for just 4 fonts.