post table: Macintosh "standard" glyph names?

[Bob Hallissy]

In the 'post' table, described in section 5.2.9, for both version 1 and 
version 2 tables there are references to the Macintosh standard glyph 
set. For example, the Version 1 table description says:

>     This TrueType-based font file contains exactly the 258 glyphs in
>     the standard Macintosh TrueType font file.  See the WGL4.0
>     Character Set in the informative reference 2 in the bibliography
>     for a list of the Macintosh glyphs

According to the bibliography:

>     [2]The WGL4 character set -
>     http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/WGL4.htm
>
Unfortunately this external reference has a few issues, including:

  * Does not give names for name indices 1 or 2
  * Is completely missing name indices 210 and 217
  * Includes name indices 192 and 193 twice (though, fortunately, with
    identical glyph names), one pair of which points to PUA character codes
  * Does not agree with the actual standard Macintosh TrueType file
    specification for index 172 which Microsoft calls "space" (really??)
    and Apple calls "nonbreakingspace"

For its part, the Apple specification of these names (see 
https://developer.apple.com/fonts/TTRefMan/RM06/Chap6post.html) has its 
own problem:

  * index 1 is given the name ".null" which is not a valid Adobe
    postscript glyph name -- it should be "null" instead.

Is there a reason the OFF cannot include an explicit normative list of 
the names for these 258 glyphs?

Bob Hallissy
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