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From: rsilverman@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: 16 bit characters
Message-ID: <2362@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Date: 20 Oct 89 15:29:30 GMT
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In article <5203@ogccse.ogc.edu>, goward@ogccse.ogc.edu (Philip Goward) writes:
> I've been wondering how PostScript adapts to 16-bit fonts, such
> as Kanji. How are characters with codes > 255 accessed? ...

The standard definition of PostScript does not allow for more than 256
characters to be encoded at once (although there can be many more characters in
a font, accessible by reencoding the font on the fly, or creating multiple
fonts based on the same set of character definitions with different encoding
vectors).  I remember reading that sometime in the past few months, Adobe
started marketing an extended version that could deal better with the
requirements of non-Roman writing systems.

                                                Richard Silverman

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