Re: [Fontforge-users] Question on importing svg/eps files

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On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, Marco Ricci wrote:
> I thought I should be able to assign any 32-bit value. Am I not correct?
> Actually this is what I meant when I asked about the maximum value I can
> use.

I think it's unlikely that FontForge will accept a value outside the
Unicode range.  To do so would raise encoding issues, because Unicode
claims all the code points that can be represented in some encoding
systems, UTF-16 in particular.  If you want a private-use code point for
which Unicode promises not to assign an official meaning, the ones
reserved for that purpose are:

  U+E000 to U+F8FF
  U+F0000 to U+FFFFD
  U+100000 to U+10FFFD

The highest value allowed by Unicode and presumably by FontForge is
U+10FFFF (1114111 decimal), which happens to be just at the end of the
last of those private-use ranges.
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