User Guide

FontLab 4
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E n c o d i n g and Uni c o de
As we mentioned earlier, fonts may have very many characters and support
a lot of different languages. To tell the operating system what codepages
the current font can support, you set the codepages information.
TrueType and Type 1 fonts use different methods to identify what
codepages a font supports. In TrueType fonts you can identify all the
supported codepages by setting bits in a special field of the font header. In
Type 1 fonts you select only one codepage (actually, encoding vector) and it
must be compatible with the actual font encoding.