From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Sun Nov 03 2002 - 07:34:19 EST
On 11/02/2002 08:24:06 AM Thomas Lotze wrote:
>> Indeed, it seems more likely that one
>> would need to use a Fraktur font with ligatures encoded with a code
>> number below 255,
>
>Why below 255?
It's a good question, why below 255. It indicates a lack of understanding
of how fonts work -- at least TrueType fonts on Windows, which I'm pretty
sure is what William is most concerned with. The glyphs that get encoded
in TrueType fonts for Windows have always been encoded using Unicode, and
not all in the range U+0020..U+00FF. Even the characters in the Western
codepage are encoded with codepoints ranging from U+0020 to U+2122
(decimal 32 to 8,482).
- Peter
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