Please end the 6,400 glyph limit

[Evertype]

The limit of 6,400 glyphs makes it impossible to do a comprehensive non-Asian font. Everson Mono, for instance, has about 6,100 glyphs in it right now, and while I'd like to add more I can't. Can this arbitrary cap be removed?

Many thanks!
Michael Everson

[Evertype]

I'd love to have an answer to this question.

[Alex Petrov]

This is a marketing question. Removing the limit will stop the AFS project.

[Evertype]

That doesn't help me very much. I dislike the "Asian Font Studio project" in the same way that I disliked the old Quark XPress marketing model where you had to pay extra to use more than one language (the Passport edition).

I have nothing against Asian fonts, but they are Not My Area. I do however have expertise in a wide variety of other scripts... but am limited by FontLab Studio quite arbitrarily.

My font Everson Mono, for instance, cannot grow beyond its current size. So I ask you... please end the 6,400 glyph limit.