[NTG-context] ZapfDingbats Unicode differences MKIV vs LMTX

[Hans Hagen]

On 9/19/2020 6:18 AM, Christoph Reller wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 4:17 PM Hans Hagen <j.hagen at xs4all.nl 
> <mailto:j.hagen at xs4all.nl>> wrote:
> 
>     On 9/18/2020 11:23 AM, Christoph Reller wrote:
>      > Dear List,
>      >
>      > I have the following MWE:
>      >
>      >
>     \definefontsynonym[ZapfDingbats][file:ZapfDingbats][features=dingbats]
>      > \usemodule [fnt-10]
>      > \starttext
>      > (1) \getglyphdirect{ZapfDingbats}{61491}\crlf % MKIV log: char 
>      > (U+0F033) in font 'ZapfDingbats-4' with id 8: missing
>      > (2) \getglyphdirect{ZapfDingbats}{983059}     % LMTX log: char 󰀓
>      > (U+F0013) in font 'ZapfDingbats-4' with id 8: missing
>      > \ShowCompleteFont{name:ZapfDingbats}{14pt}{1}
>      > \stoptext
>      >
>     Dingbats are old school t1 without proper names so we can't use
>     unicodes. However, there is a goodie that should do that so that in
>     principle it should work with unicodes but there is some interference
>     going on (i'll look at that)
> 
>     For nwo access by 'name' or 'index' (these are kind of stable for such
>     an old font):
> 
>            n:a34  : \getglyph{ZapfDingbats}{\tochar{n:a34}}  \par
>            n:a35  : \getglyph{ZapfDingbats}{\tochar{n:a35}}  \par
>            i:48   : \getglyph{ZapfDingbats}{\tochar{i:48}}   \par
>            i:49   : \getglyph{ZapfDingbats}{\tochar{i:49}}   \par
>            n:a104 : \getglyph{ZapfDingbats}{\tochar{n:a104}} \par
>            n:a105 : \getglyph{ZapfDingbats}{\tochar{n:a105}} \par
> 
> Thank you Hans!
> Access by glyph index with \tochar{i:19} works well for both MKIV and 
> LMTX. Access by name with \tochar{n:a39} does not work in LMTX with log 
> message: char ✓ (U+02713) in font 'ZapfDingbats-4' with id 8: missing. 
> Also \ShowCompleteFont does not report any glyph names in LMTX.
should be a bit better in yesterdays upload (i also changed the file 
name alias so that in pinciple unicode should work too)

Hans

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