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Re: [ft] FT_Get_Char_Index() always returns 0
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Andreas Falkenhahn |
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Re: [ft] FT_Get_Char_Index() always returns 0 |
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Thu, 10 Aug 2017 21:57:51 +0200 |
On 10.08.2017 at 21:46 Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>> It contains Greek characters
> Well it rather contains Greek *symbols*, to be used mainly for
> scientific purposes.
> The font in question is an old symbol TrueType font, not having a
> (native) Unicode cmap. Instead, it contains a Windows symbol map
> (3,0), to be addressed in the character range 0xF000-0xF0FE. You have
> to select this cmap manually.
> However, the forthcoming FreeType version (to be released very soon)
> has code to automatically synthesize a Unicode cmap (3,1) based on
> glyph names, and which get activated automatically. This means
> that...
>> [...] For example, I've tried to get the Greek character delta in
>> upper-case notation by doing the following:
>> FT_UInt glyph_index = FT_Get_Char_Index(face, 0x394);
> ... this use case *will* work properly then.
Great, thanks for looking into this!
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Best regards,
Andreas Falkenhahn mailto:address@hidden