> Well, you could try to run tftopl, a convertor from TFM to an easier readable 
> (TeX) Property List file. You could also look into the AFM (Adobe Font 
> Metrics) file (or the AFT file, whatever it is). Then you'll see the clear 
> names of the font's glyphs and their encoding.

  Except that's irrelevant, as you seem to be saying yourself at the end
of your email: TeX's font encodings are simply different things from
character encodings such as Unicode and other standards such as ISO 8859,
ISCII, Windows' code pages, Shift-JIS, etc.

  And I'm not even sure what you're aiming at in your last paragraph.
Indeed,

> There is no connection from the manifold of font encodings TeX uses to 
> Unicode. If you'll find some, it might just be

  ... that you're calling an apple an orange.

        Arthur


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