From: Christopher Fynn (cfynn@gmx.net)
Date: Mon Nov 22 2004 - 21:21:20 CST
Peter Kirk wrote:
> Chris, this may be true for those of who are still using pre-Unicode
> applications and code pages. But for those of us using Unicode
> applications on Unicode-based OSs it is the PUA characters which are
> stored. This point caused no end of problems when Word 97 was
> introduced, and documents such as legacy Hebrew were converted to the
> new format either according to the code page or into the PUA symbol area
> according to certain details in the font which at that time few of us
> understood. But in the past 7 years we have come to work mostly with
> Unicode applications and so have almost forgotten about such pains.
Your right! - it's been so many years since I used anything that used a
Windows symbol font encoding hack that I hadn't hadn't noticed the
change. Most of the more recent font-hack encodings seem to use
"Windows ANSI" for the font encoding.
- Chris
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