Re: [ft-devel] [FYI] MingLiU identifier

[mpsuzuki]

Dear Werner,

On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:03:27 +0100 (CET)
Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Microsoft Windows NT 4.0: ver 2.00 (1996-May-15, second release)
>>   tag cvt  offset 0x0023dc7c length 0x000002e4 checkSum 0x05bcf058
>>   tag fpgm offset 0x0023df60 length 0x000087c4 checkSum 0x28233bf1
>>   tag prep offset 0x005fb248 length 0x000001e1 checkSum 0xa344a1eb
>
>I've just added the output of checksums to ttload.c if tracing is
>activated.  Here is the result of an old `mingliu.ttc' which has been
>apparently part of a French Win95 version.
>
>  Version string: "20 May, 1995: Version 2.00"
>
>  tag    offset    length   checksum
>  ----------------------------------
>  cvt   001afbd0  000002e4  05bcf058
>  fpgm  001afeb4  000087c4  28233bf1
>  prep  00473e6c  000001e1  a343a1ea
>
>These checksums are taken from the SFNT directory table; they are not
>calculated manually.
>
>As you can see, the `prep' checksum differs in the last digit compared
>to `your' version 2.00.

Thank you for the info. `prep' is the shortest table
in MingLiU, so the exist of 1 byte difference version
is a pity that prevents the fastest identification :-(

Regards,
mpsuzuki