[mpeg-OTspec] Good news about CFR (aka ISO/IEC 14496-28:2012)

[suzuki toshiya]

Dear Ken,

It sounds quite interesting, because the posts from Apple to
the discussion on CFR were not so frequent. The realization
of CFR on Mac OS X is very good reason to promote it to open
source society working with Unix variants, for the interoperability
of the applications running on Mac OS X.

I was expecting some open source project around fontconfig
would be the first implementation of CFR, but it was failed.
Looking at the response from Android developers, the barrier
of 64K glyphs is not widely recognized.

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/2012-July/004219.html

Ken Lunde wrote:
> All,
> 
> Mac OS X Version 10.8 (Mountain Lion) is the first CFR implementation, and thus the first implementation to break the 64K glyph barrier. Many thanks to the folks at Apple for pulling this off. I wrote about it this morning on our CJK Type Blog. See:
> 
>   http://blogs.adobe.com/CCJKType/2012/07/cfr-support-in-mountain-lion.html
> 
> Regards...
> 
> -- Ken
> 
>