Re: News of AFII: international standard registry of glyphs and their identifiers

[Chris Rowley <C.A.Rowley@open.ac.uk>]

Thierry Bouche wrote --
> » (3) The glyph names in that list cover all of the 2200 odd fonts in the
> » Adobe Type Library (AFIK), so they correspond at least to some
> » commonly used ones...
> 
> no! that's the fun, many many current glyphs are missing (special
> ligatures,

> all the ampersand of Poetica...)

Do they have names???

I did a rough census of Unicode and found some trvia.

There are approx 1000 glyphie thingies in each of the following 3
categories: 

--  latin-, cyriilic- and greek-based alphabets;

--  other non-ideographic scripts;

--  glyphs used in conjunction with ideographs but not ideographs.


chris