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[fontographer] Re: New member

At 09:56 +0700 2008-03-07, Raymond Weisling wrote:

>Actually the lower 95 accessible characters are all used but 1, but
>in the code space above 128 only 38 are used. But the main problem is
>choosing an encoding so that on the Windows TT font nothing is lost,
>and so far I lose 5-10 glyphs.

Do you know which ones?

I suppose I'd need to see your Fog file.

>If I change the Mac encoding to Adobe
>Standard it may work, but then all of the Mac character codes and
>keyboard associations change, and we have hundreds of people using
>this font in existing documents, since 2000.

One option is to upgrade and replace the documents, but let's not go there now.

>This mail list seems very quiet. Is it always like this??

Pretty much. We don't have very many issues with Fog.

I do have some issues about the character names it contains.
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Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com



Fri Mar 7, 2008 11:29 am

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Michael Everson
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... I was going to lurk for a bit here, but it seems very quiet, so I'll pop up and awaken the crew... First, I use FOG 4.1.5 on an older Mac because the font...
Raymond Weisling
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Mar 4, 2008
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... Hi, Raymond. Welcome aboard! ... Pretty much everything you see on the keyboard is fair game for windows and macs. Are all of those characters used up in...
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Mar 4, 2008
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... Actually the lower 95 accessible characters are all used but 1, but in the code space above 128 only 38 are used. But the main problem is choosing an...
Raymond Weisling
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Mar 7, 2008
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... Do you know which ones? I suppose I'd need to see your Fog file. ... One option is to upgrade and replace the documents, but let's not go there now. ... ...
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Mar 7, 2008
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... Interesting. I'd like to see it. I recently prepared a proposal to encode Javanese script. When I was in Java we found that unlike the Balinese they did...
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