Well, the list may not be complete as the Unicode standard in always in flux. At any rate, I think the character name list is used to map the names to unicode character, so you can map unicode characters to a font's glyph index. So it's primarily a matter for custom multibyte fonts like TrueType fonts. I can't see right now, where we need a wider set of character names. Maybe when people need to use fonts that have the latest and newest Unicode characters in them they could run into problems. Not sure.
On 19.03.2004 06:07:04 Peter B. West wrote: > Jeremias, > > The penny just dropped about the names of the Unicode characters; they > are the Adobe Glyph List and the Zapf Dingbats Glyph List names of a > subset of Unicode characters. > > Won't we at some stage need to generalise support for a wider set of > glyphs? Or is that entirely a matter for user-defined fonts? Looks as > though I'll have to look at user fonts. > > Peter > > Peter B. West wrote: > > Jeremias et al, > > > > I would like ti use the Unicode Character Database as a source for names > > of characters. At the moment, ...fonts.Glyphs contains a static table > > of String pairs containing the Unicode character and its name, > > respectively. > -- > Peter B. West <http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/resume.html> Jeremias Maerki
