RE: Teletext mappings

From: Marco Cimarosti (marco.cimarosti@essetre.it)
Date: Fri Jan 19 2001 - 06:35:14 EST


Rob Hardy wrote:
> I'm preparing some mappings of teletext character sets to Unicode.

From
<http://www.sneezes.freeserve.co.uk/teletext/tech/encodings/G0_ARABIC.txt>:
  0x60 0x2010 # HYPHEN (or is it a dash?)

I think that 0x60 should be U+0640 (ARABIC TATWEEL): a character used to
extend the spacing between joined letters.

A simple glyph-oriented charset like this one would be quite unusable
without a tatweel, because it would be impossible to decently justify text.

Marco



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