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<div>As I recall, the reason was that the code Apple originally released that read 'post' tables used SInt16s instead of UInt16s, and that meant some values were coming back negative, which caused grief in some other parts of the code. In any case, such code
has long since vanished from this Earth, so speaking as one of the guys who designed the 'post' table in the first place, I say go ahead and remove the sentence.</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Bob Hallissy <<a href="mailto:Bob_Hallissy@sil.org">Bob_Hallissy@sil.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Friday, February 8, 2013 6:26 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span>"<a href="mailto:mpeg-OTspec@yahoogroups.com">mpeg-OTspec@yahoogroups.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:mpeg-OTspec@yahoogroups.com">mpeg-OTspec@yahoogroups.com</a>>, OpenType List <<a href="mailto:opentype-migration-list@indx.co.uk">opentype-migration-list@indx.co.uk</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [mpeg-OTspec] Request to increase limit on post name ID<br>
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<p>On 2013-01-30 at 11:02 Bob Hallissy wrote:<br>
> The current spec says, in the post table format 2.0, that:<br>
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> Index numbers 32768 through 65535 are reserved for future use.<br>
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1) Does anyone have any clue why these were reserved?<br>
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2) Does anyone have any objection to removing this sentence?<br>
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Now would be a good time to speak up if so...<br>
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Bob<br>
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