Re: [Freetype] discerning encodings in ttf

[Werner LEMBERG]

> TTF can not only provide numerous charsets/encodings, but also
> specify which of them are supposed to be used.

Not directly.  It can set some bits (which are often incorrect) to
inform about the covered Unicode blocks.  But this works for Unicode
only.

> Windows font property extention is capable of giving this info.
> What would be an analog functionality (set of functions or
> demo/util) in freetype?

Feel free to implement it :-)  I don't have time to do that.

> This functionality, specific endoding names, is very much worth
> adding to ftdump to by comparable to Windows tools, I think.

Indeed, showing the covered Unicode blocks would be a worthwhile
addition.


    Werner