Re: [Freefont-bugs] New glyphs are unixxxx while other glyphs are uniXXXX.

[Denis Jacquerye]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 5:02 PM, BobH <address@hidden> wrote:
> PS:
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> On 2013-06-21 at 10:26 Steve White stevan.white-at-gmail.com |OpenType
> stuff| wrote:
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> our policy is that glyphs in a Unicode font
> must be referred to *only* by their Unicode encoding
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> What about unencoded glyphs (such as ligatures or conjuncts or contextual
> variants) that are targeted by OpenType lookups?  There is no way to refer
> to these by their "Unicode encoding".
>
> Bob

A ligature or conjunct composed of uniXXXX and uniYYYY should be
called uniXXXXYYYY, if there are AGLFN names then it should be
name1_name2 for name1 and name2. For contextual variants its
uniXXXX.whatever.
This is all explained in
http://sourceforge.net/adobe/aglfn/wiki/AGL%20Specification/

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