Re: [OpenType] PS glyph `phi' vs `phi1'

["John M. Fiscella" <profirst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Message text written by Werner LEMBERG
>What about the many PS printers which have Adobe's symbol font built
in?  I'm really interested in any constructive idea how to solve the
problem in a realistic way.  Buying new fonts just for this purpose is
not realistic IMHO.<

I don't think that is a problem. The Symbol font has a "custom encoding" or
"special encoding" (you choose the name). It is a 1-byte (8-bit) font,
whose encoding is completely separate from Unicode. Non-Unicode fonts will
continue to be used well beyond our lifetimes. Actually, the only time a
non-Unicode encoding needs to be reckoned with in detail is if that font is
used as a component font of a composite font. For example, if a UTF-16 font
is assembled using 1-byte fonts as components from which to reference
glyphs. Of course, it depends on the OS and application to correctly handle
encoding differences of various fonts; some do and some don't.

John F. 
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