At 02:11 PM 15-07-02, Raymond Mercier wrote: >Do you know what role the unicode bits play in the use of the font - in MS >Word, for example ? >As far as I can see, even if the bits are set carelessly, or not set at >all, the font seems to work in Word.
At the moment, they are mainly of use when the font lacks 8-bit codepage support -- e.g. it is an Indic font, for which there are no registered codepages on the system -- and an application needs to determine whether this font is suitable to display a particular text. There are likely to be other fallback mechanisms behind this one, e.g. checking for the presence of particular characters in the font cmap table. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Language must belong to the Other -- to my linguistic community as a whole -- before it can belong to me, so that the self comes to its unique articulation in a medium which is always at some level indifferent to it. - Terry Eagleton