The current CMAP4 implementation uses whatever the current codepoint ranges are and then encodes them as indivudal glyph ids or as a delta if possible. However, it's often possible to save bytes by splitting up existing ranges and encoding parts of them using deltas where the cost of splitting the range is less than encoding each glyph individual.
Though the spec said FeatureRecords are sorted alphabetically by feature
tag, there're font files with unsorted FeatureList. And harfbuzz is not
able to subset these files correctly because we use binary search in
finding featureRecords when collecting lookups. Also
find_duplicate_features needs to be updated to handle this.
Garret Rieger
Qunxin Liu