Re: [Fontforge-users] Inclusion of glyph-less characters in exported otf font

[Peter B. <ps...@vi...>]

I'm not sure about Windows, but in Ubuntu the character map program always does what you describe: it has nothing to do with the font, which is probably built correctly if the char map programs are correctly displaying the characters it contains. These programs are not good for determining a font's coverage!

Peter

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On Jul 17, 2011, at 8:21 PM, Zephyris <be_...@ho...> wrote:

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am working on making a font from scratch in FontForge (version 23:48 GMT
> 23-Sep-2009 (20090923)) and I am having problems exporting the font to an
> .otf
> 
> I have made glyphs for the complete ISO 8859-1 (Latin 1) range and the font
> is coded in this form, however when I export it as an .otf character mapping
> programs (in both Ubuntu and Windows) show both my glyphs for the Latin 1
> range and stand-in glyps for what looks like the entire ISO 10646-1
> (Unicode, BMP) range. This is not the behaviour I would expect, I would
> expect only the Latin 1 characters to be visible. It seems to vary randomly
> as to whether the glyph-less characters appear with a correct stand-in
> glyph, as an empty box or with no glyph at all.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea what could be going wrong? Or if there is a setting
> I have inadvertently changed? I can provide files for testing but would
> rather not post them publicly...
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