At 13:31 4/19/2002, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote: >The latest docs I've seen indicate four hex chars in the uniXXXX names >for glyphs corresponding to BMP chars. What should be done for glyphs >corresponding to characters in the supplementary planes?
Adobe are supposed to have posted an update to their glyph naming rules. The basic upshot of this update are that non-BMP characters should be named using scalar values with the prefix 'u', e.g. u344DE. Ligated or glyphs otherwise representing more than one character should use the underscore convention: u344DE_u3456A. Note that the ligature glyph name form uni04560368 is limited to BMP characters only. Unencoded variant forms should use the dot convention, as current with BMP characters: u344DE.alt, u344DE.swash, etc.. In future software, you should be able to use the 'u' prefix for either BMP or non-BMP characters, but for backwards compatibility you probably should use 'uni' for the former. I should let someone from Adobe answer your other questions. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Last words of Jesuit grammarian Dominique Bouhours: "I am about to — or I am going to — die; either expression is used."
