Using advanced Unicode features
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 6:57 am
Something which I find rather puzzling is the way that whether one can use advanced OpenType features on a Windows PC depends very much upon which version of Windows is running. For example, it appears that the glyph substitution capabilities of an OpenType font cannot be used on a Windows 95 or Windows 98 PC because the operating system does not support that feature of OpenType.
On the face of it, and do please correct me if I have got it wrong, it appears to me that there is no reason why the glyph substitution features of OpenType could not be used on a Windows 95 or Windows 98 PC if there were an application program, written, say, in C, which accessed the data in the font file and did its own rendering within a graphics environment. Such an application program, which could also be used on more modern PCs, could open up the possibilities of using those features of Unicode which are not currently available on some PCs.
Is this correct?
William Overington
28 September 2004
On the face of it, and do please correct me if I have got it wrong, it appears to me that there is no reason why the glyph substitution features of OpenType could not be used on a Windows 95 or Windows 98 PC if there were an application program, written, say, in C, which accessed the data in the font file and did its own rendering within a graphics environment. Such an application program, which could also be used on more modern PCs, could open up the possibilities of using those features of Unicode which are not currently available on some PCs.
Is this correct?
William Overington
28 September 2004