Re: character by name on the gnome canvas, custom fontencoding

[Danilo Segan <danilo gnome org>]

On May 18th, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

>> > - If you use a postscript font with the standard Adobe Unicode 
>> >   character names for PUA codepoints
>
> What's this?  AFAIK there are no `standard Adobe Unicode character
> names for PUA codepoints'.  I *strongly* warn against use of glyph
> names like uniF6FB.  There is absolutely no guarantee that U+F6FB is a
> free slot.

I believe Adobe uses AFII glyph registry for this, and thus names
characters like afiiXXXXX.  I may be wrong though, since I know this
is the case only for Serbian Cyrillic glyph variants as used in
FontForge.

I'm certain that AFII is much better than Unicode when it comes to
storing glyphs (it is officially a glyph registry, not like Unicode
which is _only unofficially_ a glyph registry ;).

Cheers,
Danilo