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From: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: character encodings
Message-ID: <1466@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 15 Jan 90 18:21:45 GMT
References: <5831@orca.wv.tek.com> <1990Jan12.165104.680@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason)
Organization: University of Iceland (RHI)
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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.


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