Re: [ft] Font family/style name issue (for msgothic shipped with vista).

[Adam Twardoch]

> > is being treated as UCS4.  Where as actual string in this font is utf16.
> >
> > Is "Unicode full repertoire (as per OTF spec.)"  means UCS4 ?
> >     

No. UTF-16 can represent the full Unicode repertoire (up to 1,114,111). 
Non-BMP codepoints are represented using surrogate pairs.

UCS-4, UTF-7 and UTF-8 all can also represent the full Unicode range. 
The only transformation form that cannot is UCS-2, which is essentially 
UTF-16 minus the surrogates, and is almost never used. Codepoints beyond 
1,114,111 are not and never will be encoded in Unicode.

In OpenType fonts, all Unicode strings are encoded using UTF-16BE (i.e. 
the Motorola big-endian flavor).

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Adam Twardoch
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