"Thorsten Froehlich" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> I won't dispute your results because they don't surprise me, but I dispute the
> fact that the code behaves unpredictably: The code is in OpenFontFile, and it
> does pick the Unicode tables as top priority if Unicode is specified as text
> format. It only falls back to MacRoman (which next to all TTFs contain for
> legacy reasons) if it cannot find any of the Unicode formats that it does
> support. So the real question is if maybe in the 18 years since this code was
> introduced in 3.5 based on TTFs shipped with Mac OS 9 and Windows 2000, some
> other TTF Unicode formats were introduced that the code does not support...

To answer my own questions, the formats did change...
https://developer.apple.com/fonts/TrueType-Reference-Manual/RM06/Chap6cmap.html

So what you see is the code falling back to a ASCII (MacRoman) code tables as a
fail-safe because it cannot use the newer Unicode tables most current fonts seem
to contain.

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