[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
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FT_ENCODING_NONE
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FT_ENCODING_UNICODE
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FT_ENCODING_MS_SYMBOL
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FT_ENCODING_SJIS
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FT_ENCODING_GB2312
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FT_ENCODING_BIG5
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FT_ENCODING_WANSUNG
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FT_ENCODING_JOHAB
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FT_ENCODING_ADOBE_LATIN_1
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FT_ENCODING_ADOBE_STANDARD
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FT_ENCODING_ADOBE_EXPERT
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FT_ENCODING_ADOBE_CUSTOM
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FT_ENCODING_APPLE_ROMAN
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FT_ENCODING_OLD_LATIN_2
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FT_ENCODING_MS_SJIS
Same as FT_ENCODING_SJIS. Deprecated.
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FT_ENCODING_MS_GB2312
Same as FT_ENCODING_GB2312. Deprecated.
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FT_ENCODING_MS_BIG5
Same as FT_ENCODING_BIG5. Deprecated.
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FT_ENCODING_MS_WANSUNG
Same as FT_ENCODING_WANSUNG. Deprecated.
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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 david.warring@gmail.com Copyright 2017.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.