Hello, I was recently asked to make a special vDOS font by a Persian vDos user. The task proved to be a daunting one, and I learnt some new tricks trying to accomplish it. Without going into all the gory details, basically, the thing was done by copying glyphs from Unicode positions to the 8-bit ASCII range when code page 437 is active in the font editor (I used Fontlab Type Tool). It is a lot of work as Arabic characters are scattered around several Unicode sub-ranges, and you have to pick the right variants from a host of possibilities that look almost the same to Western eyes (there are initial, medial, final and isolated variants of most of the letters). I found this resource indispensable when trying to locate the characters: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/. You just enter the unicode name and you get a list of all the variants. Just great, and highly recommended! Some other Unicode resources for your enjoyment: http://www.unicode.org/charts/index.html (official Unicode charts) http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/babelmap.html (Unicode plane viewer) http://www.shapecatcher.com/ (draw a character and find out which chr. it is) https://unicodelookup.com/ (good tool for finding Unicode chrs. when you know part of the name, e.g. enter "alef" and you get Hebrew and Arabic character names with alef in them) http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/ (many exotic fonts) I also stumbled upon THE OLDSCHOOL PC FONT RESOURCE (https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/readme/) which has many interesting technical details about DOS fonts and a collection of bitmap and TrueType fonts. Best regards, Kari Eveli LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland) lexitec@xxxxxxxx *** Lexitec Online *** Lexitec in English: http://www.lexitec.fi/english.html Home page in Finnish: http://www.lexitec.fi/Attachment: Farsi_CP437.JPG
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