[ft-devel] cmap0 confusions

[Alexei Podtelezhnikov]

Hi Werner,

While looking at those old Apple testing fonts from 1997. I fond very
weird cmap0's in hebrew and arabic fonts. First, those fonts do not
have ASCII glyphs for the range 0x20-0x7F. Second, they still map the
ASCII range to some special hebrew/arabic characters. This totally
confuses me because Apple Hebrew and Apple Arabic are described with
proper ASCII range in the documentation
ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/ . How is this
even legal? Are they using some undocumented tricks to setup cmap
format 0?

Alexei