[mpeg-OTspec] Proposal: Specify UTF encoding of Unicode strings

[Dave Pawson]

On 24 November 2011 00:05, Sairus Patel <sppatel at adobe.com> wrote:

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> === Proposal { my comments are in curly brackets }
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> { In http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/name.htm [OFF sec. 5.2.6]: }
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> 1. { Insert the following sentence at the end of the paragraph "Unicode platform encoding ID 5 can be used for encodings in the 'cmap' table but not for strings in the 'name' table.": }
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> Strings for all Unicode platform encoding IDs other than 5 must be encoded in UTF-16 (big endian).
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> 2. { Insert the following paragraphs at the end of the "Windows platform-specific encoding IDs (platform ID= 3)" section: }
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> Strings for Windows platform encoding ID 0 are considered to have Unicode semantics (UCS-2).
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> Strings for Windows platform encoding IDs 0, 1, and 10 must be encoded in UTF-16 (big endian).



Disagree. Specifying the encoding is a pain when done this way and too
expensive.

Specify the encoding used, don't require a particular one.
Allow iso-8859 or  utf-8, just let the reader know what it is.

regards


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