Standard Squeak Font Encodings
Bert Freudenberg
bert at isgnw.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De
Wed Feb 2 10:50:04 UTC 2000
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
> -Bert- wrote
> I'd vote for switching to ISO Latin-1 because it is one of the
> best-documented encodings (it's almost impossible to find a Mac encoding
> chart on the web). Besides, codes from 128 to 159 are "free" so we can put
> special characters there.
>
> Codes 128..159 are only "sort of" free. The ISO 6429 standard defines a
> whole lot of so-called "C1 controls", and guess where they go?
That's why I double quoted "free". I meant "there are no printable
characters defined in that range". So for font purposes we can use that
range.
-Bert-
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