User Guide

Editing Fonts
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Unicode Options
Most TrueType fonts use Unicode indexes for the glyph encoding
information. Therefore if you want to make a TT font that will always work
your Unicode glyph mapping tables must be perfectly correct.
Here is a description of the Unicode export options in the
Windows version:
Use Unicode indexes
as a base for
TrueType encoding
If this option is on then FontLab will use the Unicode
indexes that are set for the font’s glyphs as the source of
Unicode encoding information. See below.
Use the following
codepage for the
first 256 glyphs
FontLab can optionally reencode the first 256 glyphs of the
font, letting you create a “single-codepage” font for some
codepages. This is very similar to using the Glyph >
Glyph Names > Reencode glyphs command before
export.
The list located below this label contains several choices:
The first option, “Do not reencode the first 256 characters”
means that reencoding is off. All other options in the list let
you select a remapping table to perform reencoding.