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• Helvetica Neue -> Opentype PRO
Posted by dimitri_c in
6 Jun 2012 — 8:09am
6 Jun 2012 — 8:09am
Hello -
I was wondering where can I buy the NEW "Helvetica Neue Opentype PRO"?
Does it embed the 65535 characters?
Thank you, have a nice day…
- Dimitri
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6 Jun 2012 — 12:52pm
I'm wondering about where your magical number 65535 comes from. Current version of Unicode supports more characters than this, and the Basic Multilingual Plane actually contains less than 65535.
7 Jun 2012 — 2:22pm
But a font can only encode 65535 glyphs.
7 Jun 2012 — 4:23pm
@Tom - I've wondered about that. What is the history or technology behind that limitation? Doesn't unicode extend to 8-byte codes, which, at least numerically, would allow for something over four billion codes?
- Herb
8 Jun 2012 — 5:33am
Nope, that's four-byte (32-bit) codes. Ya gotta square yer four billions to get the bignum for eight-byte (64-bit) codes.
8 Jun 2012 — 6:21am
Neue Helvetica Std, Pro, Com and W1G versions are available to license through Linotype, here.
Unless of course you mean the new release of the older font that eventually became Neue Helvetica, that is, Neue Haas Grotesk, which is also available in Std and Pro variations through Linotype, here.
18 Jun 2012 — 4:42pm
Glyphs are restricted to a double-byte space. Storage of glyphs in a font is by glyph ID, which is independent of encoding. Unicode or other encodings are handled by the cmap table, which maps from Unicode (or other encodings) to glyph ID.
Unicode has just under a million possible codepoints. Of those about 110,000 are assigned as of Unicode 6.1. A large chunk are reserved for private use, so will never be assigned.