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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:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">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</blockquote>
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According to the bibliography:<br>
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style="mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">The WGL4 character set - <a
href="http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/WGL4.htm"
target="_top"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/WGL4.htm</span></a>
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Unfortunately this external reference has a few issues, including:<br>
<ul>
<li>Does not give names for name indices 1 or 2</li>
<li>Is completely missing name indices 210 and 217<br>
</li>
<li>Includes name indices 192 and 193 twice (though, fortunately,
with identical glyph names), one pair of which points to PUA
character codes</li>
<li>Does not agree with the actual standard Macintosh TrueType
file specification for index 172 which Microsoft calls "space"
(really??) and Apple calls "nonbreakingspace"<br>
</li>
</ul>
For its part, the Apple specification of these names (see <a
href="https://developer.apple.com/fonts/TTRefMan/RM06/Chap6post.html">https://developer.apple.com/fonts/TTRefMan/RM06/Chap6post.html</a>)
has its own problem:<br>
<ul>
<li>index 1 is given the name ".null" which is not a valid Adobe
postscript glyph name -- it should be "null" instead.<br>
</li>
</ul>
Is there a reason the OFF cannot include an explicit normative list
of the names for these 258 glyphs?<br>
<br>
Bob Hallissy<br>
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