bobtl@toolbox.WV.TEK.COM (01/12/90)
This isn't the type of message usually discussed here, my apologies if this is inappropriate. I am trying to learn if there are standard encodings for non-ascii characters. Ascii itself is a defacto standard, and I think there is actually a standard (ISO Latin-1 ??) which formalizes it. So what about other symbols I want to draw. Say the copyright c in a circle symbol, or the TM trademark symbol. Is there an standard index value that is the same for all fonts which adhere to a standard? I don't care if it is a formal standard or one that everyone just seems to follow. Thanx, Bob Toole
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (01/13/90)
In article <5831@orca.wv.tek.com> bobtl@toolbox.WV.TEK.COM () writes: >I am trying to learn if there are standard encodings for non-ascii characters. >Ascii itself is a defacto standard, and I think there is actually a standard >(ISO Latin-1 ??) which formalizes it. ASCII is a formal standard; the "AS" part is "American Standard". It is the US instantiation of a slightly more general ISO standard whose number I forget. ISO Latin 1, in turn, is a heavily extended ASCII which adds enough characters to cover almost all Western European languages, plus some other useful odds and ends. >So what about other symbols I want to draw. Say the copyright c in a circle >symbol, or the TM trademark symbol. Is there an standard index value that >is the same for all fonts which adhere to a standard? ... Not that I'm aware of. -- 1972: Saturn V #15 flight-ready| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1990: birds nesting in engines | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger) (01/15/90)
|>So what about other symbols I want to draw. Say the copyright c in a circle |>symbol, or the TM trademark symbol. Is there an standard index value that |>is the same for all fonts which adhere to a standard? ... Well, I don't know how many characters it encompasses, but I was quite surprised to discover while transferring files that the ManIntosh and Amiga use the same code for the copyright circle-c; you might try obtaining copies of the standard IBM, MacIntosh, and Amiga encodings and then finding all the intersections. If you do this, *PLEASE POST* the results! -- -- Brian, the Man from Babble-on. ...!mcnc!rti!sas!bts -- (Brian Schellenberger) "No one will ever write a song called 'Nitro Burning Funny Cars'" -- THE DEAD MILKMEN, "Nitro Burning Funny Cars"
frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) (01/16/90)
In article <1990Jan12.165104.680@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: >ASCII is a formal standard; the "AS" part is "American Standard". It is >the US instantiation of a slightly more general ISO standard whose number >I forget. ISO Latin 1, in turn, is a heavily extended ASCII which adds >enough characters to cover almost all Western European languages, plus >some other useful odds and ends. It must also be noted that the bottom half of ISO Latin-1 (ISO 8859/1), (characters 00-7F) is identical to ASCII. The various ISO 8859/x standards include additional characters to cover * Western Europe (well, almost all of it) * Nothern Europe (not Iceland though) * Parts of eastern Europe (cyrillic) * Greece etc. >>So what about other symbols I want to draw. Say the copyright c in a circle >>symbol, or the TM trademark symbol. Is there an standard index value that >>is the same for all fonts which adhere to a standard? ... Well - it depends on which standard you use..... :-) In ISO 8859/1, the copyright symbol is A9 (hex) but TM does not exist. -- Fridrik Skulason University of Iceland frisk@rhi.hi.is Computing Services Guvf yvar vagragvbanyyl yrsg oynax .................