[Fontforge-users] Playing with encodings - force it to lie, be 8859-1 Latin1?

[Avinash C. <av...@ac...>]

[First of all, thanks to the author of fontforge! Last looked it a few years
ago, and the latest version is fantastic.]

I'm into learning mode with regards to fontforge right now, my final goal
is to know it enough to create all the GSUB tables needed for Indic fonts.

But for now, I just want to fool around, and wanted to use fontforge to play
along with the game Indic text editors have used for a while now - mark a font
as being Latin1, but really store glyphs in it that represent Indic languages,
for example Sanskrit.

Here's a test case - this is a font I that will only work on Windows, it is a
very old version of the excellent package of tools from 
	http://www.omkarananda-ashram.org/Sanskrit/itranslator99.htm

The font is Sanskrit98, here's the TTF file:
	http://www.aczoom.com/pub/misc/sans98.ttf
Under windows, this font shows up as Latin1, and this is the character map that shows
up:
	http://www.aczoom.com/pub/misc/sans98.gif

Now, if I load the sans98.ttf font into fontforge, it will not allow me to 
keep the character map as laid out, and mark the font as being Latin1 (or Unicode).

I totally understand this is a practice to be stopped, and we should all move
to Unicode, but I am just curious - is it possible to edit fonts with layouts 
like sans98.ttf and create minor updates to such fonts?

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Avinash Chopde
av...@ac...
http://www.aczoom.com/