Am 2010-10-04 um 15:13 schrieb Bert Freudenberg:

>> Hm, sounds feasible but feels like a hack.
> 
> Not really, that's how fonts work nowadays. We do not want to pay the price in terms of memory for full coverage. So we select glyphs, and no font has full unicode coverage in any case. Now by what criteria we select the glyphs we can decide on our own.

If you say so. Am I right that this creates the need for
a layer of Indirection: Character value -> Glyph id in a map?

> 
>> BTW: I noticed, that the Original Bitstream Vera is included as
>> TTCFont, however, the Bitmap DejaVu StrikeFont is based on
>> its Descendant. I noticed that the actual DejaVu font includes
>> an arrow whilst the Vera does not. Why not replace the Vera
>> by the DejaVu entirely? 
> 
> Because it's too big once rendered into bitmaps. I'd be interested to know how large it would be if we had at least the LGC subset covered ... but the only additional glyph we really need right now is the left-arrow. 

True.

So Long,
	-Tobias