[XeTeX] Problem with Unicode 01F01B

Pander pander at users.sourceforge.net
Wed Dec 19 19:06:35 CET 2012


On 2012-12-19 18:57, Pander wrote:
> On 2012-12-19 16:49, Pander wrote:
>> On 2012-12-19 16:32, Khaled Hosny wrote:
>>> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 02:22:49PM +0100, Steve White wrote:
>>>> Hi Khaled,
>>>>
>>>> Pander just alerted me about this thread, and I looked into it.
>>>>
>>>> RE fontlint test
>>>> ================
>>>> I don't see anything like your output, either on the last official
>>>> release of GNU FreeFont (20120503), or its latest SVN, either with my
>>>> distro release of fontlint (Ubuntu fontforge, from 22-Feb-2011-ML), or
>>>> with my own build of fontlint, from sources earlier this year.
>>>
>>> I used neither of those, I tested the FreeFont.otf that Pander sent me,
>>> if that is not what you are releasing, then blame him.
>>
>> I created that file from SVN with fontforge 0.0.20110222-4ubuntu1 which
>> ships with Ubuntu Precise LTS (Long Term Support). I will upgrade to a
>> manual installation of fontforge_full-20120731-b.tar.bz2 and test it again.
> 
> With fontforge version 20120731 build from source on Ubuntu Precise the
> problems disappear. Sorry for the commotion and thanks for helping me
> find the solution. Also Ubuntu can be a bit more active in backporting
> fontforge package to their current LTS distribution.

Steve, thanks for your work which I showcased with XeLaTeX in the
attachment. :)

>>>> Second, I don't recognize the problem
>>>>    "circle3mahjong glyph has hstemhm hint command with 49 arguments,"
>>>> where can we see this?
>>>
>>> I used TTX to decode the CFF table, but you can use any other tool.
>>>
>>>> You remark that FreeFont "many problems": you have made such remarks
>>>> elsewhere at various times.
>>>
>>> Neither of the two words “many” or “problems” occurred anywhere in my
>>> message.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Khaled
>>>
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