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Adobe Glyph List

Adobe Glyph List

The Adobe Glyph List (AGL) is a mapping of 4,281 glyph names to one or more Unicode characters. Its purpose is to provide an implementation guideline for "consumers" of fonts (mainly software applications); it lists a variety of standard names that are given to glyphs that correspond to certain Unicode character sequences. The AGL is maintained by Adobe Systems.

For "producers" of fonts, Adobe suggests a more limited set of names, the Adobe Glyph List for New Fonts (AGLFN), based on an earlier version of the AGL. Names not in the AGLFN are to be constructed by standard heuristics described in "Unicode and Glyph Names".

ee also

* Windows Glyph List 4

External links

* [http://www.adobe.com/devnet/opentype/archives/glyph.html Unicode and Glyph Names] - Adobe's explanatory material about heuristics for glyph naming/decoding and the use of AGL and AGLFN
* [http://www.adobe.com/devnet/opentype/archives/glyphlist.txt Adobe Glyph List] - the actual mapping for font consumers
* [http://www.adobe.com/devnet/opentype/archives/aglfn.txt Adobe Glyph List for New Fonts] - the actual mapping for font producers


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