Re: CP1252 under Unix

From: Eugene B. Byrganov (E.B.Byrganov@inp.nsk.su)
Date: Mon Mar 27 2000 - 08:16:08 EST


Markus Kuhn wrote:

> So far, X11, the commonly used Unix GUI system did support in its
> standard fonts only ISO 8859-1. We (= loose group of XFree86 volunteers)
> are changing this at the moment, but it will take at least a year or two
> until this is really widely deployed. (There are also some architectural
> issues, because the X11 font mechanisms were not designed to efficiently
> handle sparse 16-bit fonts that contain characters in the range 0-255
> plus one at 0x20AC). Most browsers do already offer transliteration to
> ASCII as a compromise fallback. CP1252 characters become slowly
> acceptable in the Unix world, too, *IF THEY ARE PROPERLY ANNOUNCED AND
> ENCODED*, i.e. either as UTF-8 (preferred), windows-1252, or Unicode
> numeric character references in HTML.
>
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/CP1252.html
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/wgl4.txt
>

New Raster Fonts for X are made my friend for windows-1252 character
(as winlatin-1) with Euro (0x80):

http://www.inp.nsk.su/~bolkhov/files/fonts/cyr-rfx/

Also font has other encodes: iso8859-15, iso8859-5, windows-1251, koi8-1

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С наилучшими пожеланиями, Евгений Бырганов. Best regards, Eugene Byrganov

mailto:E.B.Byrganov@inp.nsk.su.remove-this. work - http://www.inp.nsk.su/



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