Peter Constable

Rob McKaughan has drafted fonttools changes to add support for the STAT extension adding a format 4 axis value table, but he's waiting until OT1.8.2 has been published before submitting...

> If "[All string data for platform 3 must be encoded in UTF-16BE](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/name#platform-specific-encoding-and-language-ids-windows-platform-platform-id-3)"... That's a clear statement in the spec and means what it says. > But then again, the...

>Why would you need 3/1 and 3/4 subtables, if they're both going to be UTF-16BE? Well, in 1990, I guess people had reasons to think that's what should be done....

Yes, in many Korean fonts, the glyph mapped from U+005C is a won sign.

@duerst I can't speak for Microsoft's font teams on your proposed 'solution', but my guess is that it wouldn't fly with customers in Japan and so wouldn't be viable. The...

These commands are not listed directly in the article, but rather are in the Win32API_PtrSafe.txt file that can be downloaded from the link mentioned in the article:

@Reeced40 I added a comment, but I don't have access to re-open the issue.

The bugs were not in the article, but rather in the Win32API_PtrSafe.TXT file that one gets via the download link. Has that been debugged and revised?

The msi download works as expected, and the msi works as expected. But these are not the issue. Rather, the issue I reported was with the content of the Win32API_PtrSafe.TXT...

Some concerns are that this will be a breaking change for some parsing implementations, and questions from some reviewers as to whether the original issue warrants a change and the...