Re: Cuneiform - Dynamic vs. Static

[Deborah Goldsmith]

FYI, Panther was changed to not do font substitution in the user part 
of the PUA (it still does it in the corporate part). This was because 
different fonts can use the same PUA code point for different things 
(and do; this was not a hypothetical problem but one we have seen in 
practice). The idea going forward is that use of PUA code points needs 
to be accompanied by an explicit font specification. Picking the first 
font you find for a PUA code point does not seem like the right 
approach to us.

Deborah Goldsmith
Manager, Fonts / Unicode liaison
Apple Computer, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Jan 13, 2004, at 1:23 PM, Dean Snyder wrote:

  (RESPONSE) Not being a font designer, I called a font designer friend
of mine and he DID say there are tool problems and operating system
problems associated with non-code-point-specified glyphs in OpenType. 
He
specifically mentioned Volt and FontLab. For what it's worth, I have 
seen
a difference between Jaguar and Panther in how Mac OS X treats 
characters
in the PUA - in Panther they commonly show up with the indeterminate
glyph symbol even when a suitable font, that worked in Jaguar, is 
installed.