[XeTeX] Problem with Unicode 01F01B

[Khaled Hosny]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:59:34AM -0600, mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2012, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> > For a couple of releases now, XeTeX will always put the absolute path
> > of the font in the XDV to avoid the recurrent problem with XeTeX and
> 
> Does this make XDV files non-portable?  It may be that getting the correct
> font, in the usual case of the XDV being generated and used immediately
> through a pipe on the same machine, is important enough that this is the
> Right Thing to do.  But I am currently generating and using XDV files in
> separate steps on a single machine, and it's not hard to imagine someone
> wanting to do those in separate steps on separate machines.

AFAIK, XDV have never been considered a portable format (neither is
DVI, device independent and portable are two different concepts).

> Device-independent files are no longer device-independent if they're tied
> to one host's filesystem.

Check the 4th paragraph in this interview for what device independence
actually meant:
http://www.tug.org/interviews/fuchs.html

Regards,
Khaled