Request to increase limit on post name ID

[Bob Hallissy]

The current spec says, in the post table format 2.0, that:

Index numbers 32768 through 65535 are reserved for future use.


This effectively limits fonts to 32K glyphs unless we want to abandon 
any hope of extracting usable texts from glyph streams.  In any case, 
having to ensure no more than 32K glyphs have postscript names makes 
font development more difficult.

You might ask: why don't I just put the postscript names in there 
anyway? The reason is that products like Firefox are being more 
stringent about what fonts are acceptable, especially for web fonts, and 
fonts that have glyph name IDs greater than 32767 are being rejected 
because they violate this clause of the standard.

Is there any reason to continue to reserve IDs 32768 through 65535? Or 
is the future here and we should start permitting those IDs?

Bob Hallissy

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