From: Sven S. <sve...@gm...> - 2008-04-08 07:34:39
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I wonder about one thing: In the BabelMap's Font Analysis Utility some fonts show for the Basic Latin set 95 characters (Like most DejaVu fonts) coverage and few show 96 characters coverage (as does DejaVu Sans Light). (see schreenshot) The developer of BabelMap thinks this is because "... some fonts have a separate blank glyph for the tab character, but most map space and tab to the same glyph." Does somebody know how to check this? This looks like an inconsistency between the DejaVu fonts. Best regards, S. |
From: Ben L. <ben...@gm...> - 2008-04-08 10:48:55
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On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Sven Siegmund wrote: > I wonder about one thing: In the BabelMap's Font Analysis Utility > some fonts show for the Basic Latin set 95 characters (Like most > DejaVu fonts) coverage and few show 96 characters coverage (as does > DejaVu Sans Light). (see schreenshot) If anything, DejaVu Sans Extralight should give less glyphs than Sans Normal, since I think all glyphs which are in the former are also in the latter font. So I have no idea where this difference comes from. > The developer of BabelMap thinks this is because "... some fonts have > a separate blank glyph for the tab character, but most map space and > tab to the same glyph." But there is no special tab glyph. In principle there's the tab control character U+0009 in Unicode, but there's no font who defines a glyph for that (because it's a control glyph). > Does somebody know how to check this? This looks like an > inconsistency between the DejaVu fonts. It looks more like some very small bug in BabelMap. Unfortunately I have no clue how it counts things (i.e. which glyph set does it take into consideration), so I can't help you out here. If it's just the Basic Latin block in Unicode, then both fonts have exactly the same glyphs covered there... Greetings Ben |