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How Unicode Characters Become Glyphs on Your Screen

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  • Presented by Christopher Chapman, Adobe Fonts

Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

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Christopher Chapman describes the internals of fonts and the text rendering stack to show how writing systems are supported after Unicode.

Christopher Chapman from Adobe Fonts will describe the internals of fonts and the text rendering stack to provide some insight into the additional work needed to support a writing system after it is added to Unicode.

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