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Used in conjunction with the character complement field in the header of the font descriptor, to decide the
compatibility of a symbol set for an unbound font. This flag indicates which symbol collections are
necessary to make the required symbol set.
Each bit in this field stands for the selection of each symbol collection. When set to 1, the symbol
collection is included and when set to 0, the symbol collection is not included in the unbound scalable font.
Character Requirements for MSL Symbol index
Bit
63
62
61
34
33
32
2,1,0
Character Requirements for Unicode Symbol index
Bit
31
30
29
28
27
26
25
24
23
22
2,1,0
Symbol Map (Array of UI )
The symbol map, which has a list of symbol index numbers, is used to define the symbols for the symbol set. This
map defines the combination between symbol index number and character code.
Character Requirement Flag ( 8 bytes )
Value Designated Use
1 Basic Latin required (such as ISO 8859/1 Latin 1)
0 Basic Latin not required
1 East European Latin required (such as ISO 8859/2 Latin 2)
0 Basic European Latin not required
1 Turkish required (such as ISO 8859/9 Latin 5)
0 Turkish not required
1 Math required (such as Math-8)
0 Math not required
1 Semi-graphic required (such as PC-8 D/N)
0 Semi-graphic not required
1 Dingbats required (such as ITC Zapf Dingbats series 100,series 200 )
0 Dingbats not required
000 MSL Symbol index
Value Designated Use
1 ASCII required (such as ISO 6 ASCII)
0 ASCII not required
1 West Europe extensions required (such as ISO 69 French)
0 West Europe extensions not required
1 East Europe extensions required (such as ISO 8859/2 Latin 2)
0 East Europe extensions not required
1 Turkish extensions required (such as ISO 8859/9 Latin 5)
0 Turkish extensions not required
1 Desktop Publishing extensions required (such as Windows 3.1)
0 Desktop Publishing extensions not required
1 Accent extensions required (such as ISO 8859/1 Latin 1)
0 Accent extentions not required
1 PCL extensions required (such as Roman-8)
0 PCL extensions not required
1 Macintosh extensions required (such as MC text)
0 Macintosh extensions not required
1 PostScript extensions required (such as PS Text)
0 PostScript extensions not required
1 Code Page extensions required (such as PC-8)
0 Code Page extensions not required
001 Unicode Symbol Index
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