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Revision C 16/01/96
Chapter 2 "PCL" - 38
10 - 17: Character Requirement Flag ( 8 bytes )
Used in conjunction with the character complement field in the header of the font descriptor, to decide the
compatibility of a symbol set for an unbound font. This flag indicates which symbol collections are
necessary to make the required symbol set.
Each bit in this field stands for the selection of each symbol collection. When set to 1, the symbol
collection is included and when set to 0, the symbol collection is not included in the unbound scalable font.
Character Requirements for MSL Symbol index
Bit Value Designated Use
63 1
0 Basic Latin required (such as ISO 8859/1 Latin 1)
Basic Latin not required
62 1
0 East European Latin required (such as ISO 8859/2 Latin 2)
Basic European Latin not required
61 1
0 Turkish required (such as ISO 8859/9 Latin 5)
Turkish not required
34 1
0 Math required (such as Math-8)
Math not required
33 1
0 Semi-graphic required (such as PC-8 D/N)
Semi-graphic not required
32 1
0 Dingbats required (such as ITC Zapf Dingbats series 100,series 200 )
Dingbats not required
2,1,0 000 MSL Symbol index
Character Requirements for Unicode Symbol index
Bit Value Designated Use
31 1
0 ASCII required (such as ISO 6 ASCII)
ASCII not required
30 1
0 West Europe extensions required (such as ISO 69 French)
West Europe extensions not required
29 1
0 East Europe extensions required (such as ISO 8859/2 Latin 2)
East Europe extensions not required
28 1
0 Turkish extensions required (such as ISO 8859/9 Latin 5)
Turkish extensions not required
27 1
0 Desktop Publishing extensions required (such as Windows 3.1)
Desktop Publishing extensions not required
26 1
0 Accent extensions required (such as ISO 8859/1 Latin 1)
Accent extentions not required
25 1
0 PCL extensions required (such as Roman-8)
PCL extensions not required
24 1
0 Macintosh extensions required (such as MC text)
Macintosh extensions not required
23 1
0 PostScript extensions required (such as PS Text)
PostScript extensions not required
22 1
0 Code Page extensions required (such as PC-8)
Code Page extensions not required
2,1,0 001 Unicode Symbol Index
Symbol Map (Array of UI )
The symbol map, which has a list of symbol index numbers, is used to define the symbols for the symbol set. This
map defines the combination between symbol index number and character code.