[MPEG-OTSPEC] Cmap format to map 1 char to multiple glyphs?

[William_J_G Overington]

This would also be useful as a way to localize a character that 
represents a localizable sentence into plain text in a chosen language. 
Thus a font that has a version for a particular language.

If this format could be extended to be able to map a sequence of 
characters to multiple glyphs then such a font set up for French could 
be used to automatically decode

!123

into a display of

Bonjour.

That is just a trivial example, for the purpose of explaining, yet some 
readers may like to consider the following slide show where localizable 
sentences are used to communicate through the language barrier to find 
information about relatives and friends after a disaster.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/slide_show_about_localizable_sentences.pdf

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/A_List_of_Code_Numbers_and_English_Localizations_for_use_in_Research_on_Communication_through_the_Language_Barrier_using_encoded_Localizable_Sentences.pdf

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/localizable_sentences_research.htm

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/localizable_sentences_the_novel_chapter_079.pdf

If this application could be taken into consideration when designing the 
specification, such as by not limiting the number of glyphs to some 
unnecessarily low number, that would be very helpful please.

William Overington

Wednesday 13 December 2023

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