Re: commit: 2990

From: Patrick Lam (plam@plam.lcs.mit.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 26 2002 - 14:43:37 EST

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    On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 05:30:29PM -0000, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
    >
    > > Cheesy hack: When we read the width for unicode 32, also copy it to be
    > > the width for unicode 160.
    >
    > The "real" solution is to have two separate look up tables, one for
    > translating Unicode -> Adobe and the other Adobe->Unicode. I
    > have been very reluctant to go this way since the number of glyphs
    > impacted is small (I do not know of other than NBS), and the
    > lookup tables are sizeable. A hard coded workaround is, therefore,
    > I think best.

    The problem is that Adobe -> Unicode is not a function. The URL I
    referenced mention that there are 8 double mappings (one adobe glyph
    to two unicode chars), most of which are uncommon in most documents.
    Let's stick with the hard coded workaround.

    pat



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