Le vendredi 20 juillet 2012 à 18:18 +0200, Khaled Hosny a écrit : > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 05:28:45PM +0200, pecita.net Archive Automatic Signing Key wrote: > > Hello. > > > > There is a bug in the package fontforge 0.0.20120101+g > > It concerns the generation of small letters i with an accent in SVG > > fonts. > > Example: for iacute FontForge generates > > <glyph glyph-name="igrave" unicode="ì" ... > > when it should generate > > <glyph glyph-name="igrave" unicode="#xED;" ... > > Your font mrks igrave as a ligature of i + gravecomb, No, it is wrong. My font mark igrave as an i grave glyph #xED , not as a ligature ì. It is generated as #xED in OTF and must also be generated as #xED in SVG. > SVG fonts a very dumb font format, if you want to build fonts with > complex substitutions you shouldn't be using SVG fonts. > Although the SVG fonts are not there to replace OTF fonts! SVG font is a fantastic format because it is XML and allow transformation. I permit to be mixed with html, mathml an others in xhtml documents. It permit to create characters dynamically and turn them into Glyphs that I can then use as editable text. It permit to create complex animation. etc. The only weakness of the SVG font format is to concurrence monopolies: is it your preoccupation? In my opinion maintaining artificially bugs for SVG fonts is not a practice that is ethical. Regards, Philippe Cochy
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