This is a bit of a dumb question, as I had this figured out at some point, but I can't for the life of me get it to work again with some new fonts:
For symbol fonts, I'd like the application font menu in Word etc. to not show sample characters, but instead the font name.
Any hints?
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Maybe font menus don't use calt but maybe it's worth a try. If calt doesn't work, try liga. If the font name is too wide for a glyph, split it up.
In a symbol font it would be very unlikely that anyone would accidentally use this character sequence. Since this precomposed glyph or glyphs would be unencoded, customers wouldn't see them in a glyph table/character map.
@Erwin Denissen
Then we better keep support for Symbol fonts in FontCreator, even though it is considered legacy.
The first is fonts that have lots of symbols, and potentially leave off even having glyphs for normal writing systems (such as English/Latin). These are given proper Unicode codepoints.
Then there are fonts like the first, but they instead (mis-)encode the glyphs as if they were English/Latin characters, to make them easy to type.
But Erwin is talking about another thing: fonts that use a special flag that causes them to behave pretty weirdly, where they then map a section of the Unicode private use area (PUA) to the lower portion of Unicode. The glyphs have the PUA encoding, but (in supporting environments) they can be typed with a normal English keyboard and yet still produce PUA codepoints. This was invented by Microsoft when Unicode was young and not well supported. For a long time it was a Windows-only thing, although eventually others started to support it (IIRC).
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I've since found that I was mistaken in thinking I had managed to overcome the default sample display somehow. The reason these border fonts displayed "correctly" was that the elements are all mapped to numeric characters. (7 = top left corner, 8 = top border, 9, top right corner, etc.). Without alphabetic glyphs, Windows displays the entire font name in the fallback system font.
Some applications, like the most current versions of Office, actually make a bit of an effort, and show at least part of the font name in plain text. As for the rest, I guess folks will be stuck with illegible garbage