Re: [Devel] CharSet & Encoding tables, as related to seac

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I just realized that one has to implement at least a parser for the
> CharSet table to implement the seach "hac' of the endchar operator.
> 
> Here is why: seac uses StandardEncoding char codes for its operands.
> But a CFF font does not necessarily have to use StandardEncoding.
> So how to get the accent glyph?  Use the char codes provided in the
> font and the tables provided in pstables.h to get the glyph names.
> The use the CharSet table to get the glyph indices, and use that to
> look up the glyphs in the CharStrings table.  Then compose the
> glpyhs.

If you are right (and I believe you are), then this shows a deficiency
in the CFF font format resp. how the original algorithm in Adobe's ATM
works...


    Werner