Standard Squeak Font Encodings

Mayuresh A Kathe mayuresh at vsnl.com
Tue Feb 1 16:16:31 UTC 2000


Hi,

If its not too much of trouble, could somebody please explain this whole
thing to me?? I am a newbie.

Thanks.

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Mayuresh A Kathe
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mayuresh at vsnl.com

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>From: Georg Gollmann <georg.gollmann at tuwien.ac.at>
>To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
>Subject: Re: Standard Squeak Font Encodings
>Date: Tue, Feb 1, 2000, 8:35 PM
>

> At 9:36 Uhr -0500 01.02.2000, Andrew C. Greenberg wrote:
>>...
>>At any rate, it would be nice if we could settle on precisely what
>>glyphs Squeak expects to have, and where, where we will or should
>>"tuck away" the substituted glyphs for the Squeak-Unique symbols,
>>and determine whether its a good idea to have "invisible" typable
>>characters, or to fix it with a glyph (or some other means to
>>display the same).  Once we settled on a "standard" encoding,
>>presumably derived from a standard "standard" encoding of some sort,
>>we can start building tools to facilitate the efforts of those
>>importing Squeak fonts.
>
> Currently the standard "standard" encoding is the Mac OS encoding. I
> vote for either staying with that or adopting ISO Latin-1 (the
> standard encoding for the WWW). In any case I don´t want to lose the
> umlaut characters.
>
> Georg
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