Re: [ft-devel] GETVARIATION and GETDATA

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I don't know the names, and don't think they were shipped by Apple.
> They are fonts that were popular-enough at certain times in certain
> locales that Apple had to put a hack into their engine to make them
> working when they decided to turn the hinting engine off.

I guess it's one of the `tricky' fonts listed in
`src/truetype/ttobjs.c'.

      DFKaiSho-SB        /* dfkaisb.ttf */
      DFKaiShu
      DFKai-SB           /* kaiu.ttf */   
      HuaTianKaiTi?      /* htkt2.ttf */
      HuaTianSongTi?     /* htst3.ttf */  
      Ming(for ISO10646) /* hkscsiic.ttf & iicore.ttf */
      MingLiU            /* mingliu.ttf & mingliu.ttc */
      PMingLiU           /* mingliu.ttc */
      MingLi43           /* mingli.ttf */

      DFKaiShu2
      NEC fadpop7.ttf
      NEC fadrei5.ttf
      NEC fangot7.ttf
      NEC fangyo5.ttf
      NEC fankyo5.ttf
      NEC fanrgo5.ttf
      NEC fangot5.ttc
      NEC fanmin3.ttc
      NEC FA-Gothic, 1996
      NEC FA-Minchou, 1996
      NEC FA-RoundGothicB, 1996
      NEC FA-RoundGothicM, 1996

On the PC, especially the MingLi fonts (for Chinese as written in
Taiwan and Hong Kong) were very popular – note that more recent
versions of MingLi no longer use bytecode instructions to position
composite elements.  I can imagine that some of those fonts were
available for the Mac also.

In case you are displaying those fonts without a TT bytecode
interpreter, you get only crap.


    Werner