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 fo
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 use
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. The names are not the Unicode Character Database names,