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Re: Higher diacriticism



** Reply to note from xywrite@xxxxxxxx Fri, 31 Oct 1997 05:22:06 -0500

> Thanks to various posters for pointing out that many accented characters
> *seem* to appear more than once in the Xy4 (=XyWin) character set...

Often there are three -- and occasionally more -- versions. For example,
the character for one-half:

« - 1-byte version - Ascii 171|Hex AB
ÿAB - standard 3-byte version - Ascii 255+61+62, i.e. 255+"AB"
þ9 - high-order 3-byte char# 825 - Ascii 254+57+2
þ?

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Robert Holmgren
holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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