CharMap
[Raku PDF Project] / [Font-FreeType Module] / Font::FreeType :: CharMap
class Font::FreeType::CharMap
Character map from font typefaces
Synopsis
use Font::FreeType;
my Font::FreeType $freetype .= new;
my $face = $freetype.face('Vera.ttf');
my $charmap = $face.charmap;
say $charmap.platform-id;
say $charmap.encoding-id;
say $charmap.encoding;Description
A charmap is used to translate character codes in a given encoding into glyph indexes for its parent's face. Some font formats may provide several charmaps per font.
Constants
The following encoding constants are exported by default by Font::FreeType. See freetype documentation
FT_ENCODING_NONE
FT_ENCODING_UNICODE
FT_ENCODING_MS_SYMBOL
FT_ENCODING_SJIS
FT_ENCODING_GB2312
FT_ENCODING_BIG5
FT_ENCODING_WANSUNG
FT_ENCODING_JOHAB
FT_ENCODING_ADOBE_LATIN_1
FT_ENCODING_ADOBE_STANDARD
FT_ENCODING_ADOBE_EXPERT
FT_ENCODING_ADOBE_CUSTOM
FT_ENCODING_APPLE_ROMAN
FT_ENCODING_OLD_LATIN_2
FT_ENCODING_MS_SJIS
Same as FT_ENCODING_SJIS. Deprecated.
FT_ENCODING_MS_GB2312
Same as FT_ENCODING_GB2312. Deprecated.
FT_ENCODING_MS_BIG5
Same as FT_ENCODING_BIG5. Deprecated.
FT_ENCODING_MS_WANSUNG
Same as FT_ENCODING_WANSUNG. Deprecated.
FT_ENCODING_MS_JOHAB
Same as FT_ENCODING_JOHAB. Deprecated.
Methods
platform-id
An ID number describing the platform for the following encoding ID. This comes directly from the TrueType specification and should be emulated for other formats.
For details please refer to the TrueType or OpenType specification.
encoding-id
A platform specific encoding number. This also comes from the TrueType specification and should be emulated similarly.
For details please refer to the TrueType or OpenType specification.
encoding
A FreeType Encoding tag (constant) identifying the charmap.
Copyright
Copyright 2004, Geoff Richards.
Ported from Perl to Raku by David Warring [email protected] Copyright 2017.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.