RE: [g-i] Update proposal

["Viti Davide" <Davide.Viti@siemens.com>]

Hi,

> If i've understand correctly, the problem of removing 
> duplicated glyphs seems to be (partially?) solved, right?

Hopefully; at least we have ha tool which should help to achieve that

> But, as Idetaka Iwai said [1], sometimes the very same glyph 
> has to be 
> provided by two different fonts since it's completly different from 
> language to language.

Would it be possible to manipulate the font(s) file as to map the same
Glyph in two different positions?

Suppose Glyph u+xxx (let's say at position x) in foo.ttf is needed both
for lang A and B;
A correctly uses it, but there's no way to tell lang B to pick that.
We could copy u+xxx from pos. X to pos. Y so that both languages would
find the same glyph
At the expected position.
I do not have enough knowledge about fonts, so this idea might be
complete rubbish :)

If it makes sense, it should be very easy to instruct fontforge to do
that

Ciao
Davide