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Re: Notdef: generic or style-specific?
BTW, some applications never show the .notdef glyph, and instead show a box with the hex code of the missing character.2 -
Re: Reason for this kind of double quotation marks
In general, Unicode avoids duplicating identical characters unless they behave differently. Space and no break space are duplicated since the later does not allow line break. Colon and ratio are dupl…2 -
Re: Extending GSUB of existing font using features file
FontForge can merge a feature file to a font extending existing GSUB/GPOS tables.6 -
Re: ccmp and decomposition
* You can do contextual pair positioning that uses the combining marks in the context. * You can also do contextual substitution of the mark glyph that depends on the base glyph. * AFAIK no.1 -
Re: ccmp and decomposition
What Chrome does is that it first sends the text to HarfBuzz (the OpenType layout engine it uses) without checking whether the font supports the the characters or not. HarfBuzz in turn will decompose…2
