Re: [Devel] Selecting the Unicode charmap by default

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Hello,

From: "Graham Asher" <address@hidden>
Subject: [Devel] Selecting the Unicode charmap by default
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 14:55:40 +0100

> I thought - perhaps wrongly - that FreeType drivers were supposed to select
> a Unicode charmap by default after a face is opened. But there seems to be
> an inconsistency here. The TrueType driver does this but the Type 1 driver
> does not. In fact it selects *no* charmap at all. I think that all drivers
> should select a Unicode charmap when loading a face. Can anybody comment?

When we use CJK font files, we cannot select a Unicode charmap, even
if we use TrueType fonts.  Because some CJK fonts are not Unicode
encoded.  Moreover, when we want to use "naked" CID font with Unicode
charmap, we must attach CMap file later.

---- Yamano-uchi, Hidetoshi