Font::FreeType::CharMap(3)

NAME
Font::FreeType::CharMap - character map from font typefaces loaded from Font::FreeType

SYNOPSIS
    use Font::FreeType;

    my $freetype = Font::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 <http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/reference/ft2-base_interface.html#FT_Encoding>

  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
    An FreeType Encoding tag (constant) identifying the charmap.