Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: character encodings
Message-ID: <1990Jan12.165104.680@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <5831@orca.wv.tek.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 90 16:51:04 GMT

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.
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