NAME

Font::TTF::Name - String table for a TTF font

DESCRIPTION

Strings are held by number, platform, encoding and language. Strings are accessed as:

$f->{'name'}{'strings'}[$number][$platform_id][$encoding_id]{$language_id}

Notice that the language is held in an associative array due to its sparse nature on some platforms such as Microsoft ($pid = 3). Notice also that the array order is different from the stored array order (platform, encoding, language, number) to allow for easy manipulation of strings by number (which is what I guess most people will want to do).

Strings are stored according to platform:

Unicode (platform id = 0)

Currently stored as 16-bit network ordered UCS2. Upon release of Perl 5.005 this will change to utf8 assuming current UCS2 semantics for all encoding ids.

Mac (platform id = 1)

Data is stored as 8-bit binary data, leaving the interpretation to the user according to encoding id.

Windows (platform id = 3)

As per Unicode, the data is currently stored as 16-bit network ordered UCS2. Upon release of Perl 5.005 this will change to utf8 assuming current UCS2 semantics for all encoding ids.

INSTANCE VARIABLES

strings

An array of arrays, etc.

METHODS

$t->read

Reads all the names into memory

$t->out($fh)

Writes out all the strings

BUGS

• Unicode type strings will be stored in utf8 for all known platforms, once Perl 5.005 has been released.

AUTHOR

Martin Hosken Martin_Hosken@sil.org. See Font::TTF::Font for copyright and licensing.