[Fontconfig] AppleRoman-DynaFont.patch

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Thu Feb 5 09:32:14 PST 2009


Behdad Esfahbod wrote:

> So, it's the case of a buggy fonts.  When we have support for removing certain
> glyphs from a font pattern you can use that to blacklist these glyphs.
> 
> As for whether fontconfig is right or wrong, I crosschecked the table with:
> 
>   http://unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/ROMAN.TXT
> 
> and the fontconfig version is correct, but missing the entries 0xE0 to 0xFF.
> Maybe there's good reason for not including those, and that reason may extend
> to the ones you are removing.  I have no idea.  Keith?

So, I checked again, and you are commenting out the everything but the ASCII
range, essentially making the MacRoman encoding equivalent to ASCII.  This
plain means that the font in question has the wrong encoding tag.  That's all.

behdad


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