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Glyphs mini vs glyphs3/7/2023 ![]() ![]() the one in Illustrator) contain the full glyph set of a font, character maps (e.g. I don't quite see how this could work: surely that means there will be inconsistency or ambiguity in how those glyphs are interpreted, varying by interpretter? (or does it vary by language, or by font?) I want to say one glyph can only have one character, but this clearly isn't right as there's an example on the linked article of 3 glyphs and glyph sets that seem to each correspond to a character and set of characters. One character can have many glyphs or glyph sets.search engine crawlers, screen readers, spell checkers) would interpret the glyphs as their respective characters. Any well made automated system based on text parsing (e.g.If you were to copy and paste text containing glyphs into a plain text editor, the glyphs would be converted to their respective characters (a fi ligature glyph would become f and i).Text parsers that aren't interested in the aestetics of text will read glyphs as their respective characters.So, my belief is (please correct me if I'm wrong) that the practical difference would be: So, the ligature for aesthetically combining fi ![]() ![]() Characters are defined by their meaning in language, glyphs, by.I'd always treated 'glyph' and 'character' as interchangable.Īfter reading an explanation on the Unicode Character Encoding Model page, my understanding is roughly this: I saw this question on the Typography site proposal and it bugged me that I didn't know the answer. ![]()
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