Character and Glyph Sets Supported
OpenType fonts from Adobe may also contain an expanded glyph set for enhanced linguistic support and advanced typographic control. The distinction between characters and glyphs is important in understanding OpenType. Characters are the code points assigned by the Unicode standard, which represent the smallest semantic units of language, such as letters. Glyphs are the specific forms or shapes that those characters or letters can take in a font.
When a font has a specific character set, it has a glyph complement that offers default glyph shapes for those characters, and it may have additional glyphs that are stylistic or linguistic variations of the characters. A key point is that one character may be represented ...
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