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Re: Off topic: type (ME letter "Yogh")
- Subject: Re: Off topic: type (ME letter "Yogh")
- From: "J. R. Fox" jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 09:43:42 -0800
Patricia M Godfrey wrote:
> CHARSET has all the values and
> the numbers of XyWrite's Speedo set. Beyond the first 255 (the Extended
> ASCII set, dating from DOS days), of course, they are peculiar to XyW,
> while Windows uses its own variation on the ANSI/ISO Latin set. (I'm not
> yet perfectly clear how that relates to Unicode.) I am working on a table
> (it's in a spreadsheet right now, so I can sort easily on any column)
> that will list most of these characters and their codes in the various
> systems. WordIMPerfect has its own scheme, which involves two numbers: a
> characteristic (to borrow a term from logarithms) number indicating the
> set, and a mantissa indicating the character's order in that set. In
> ASCII/XYW, 192-199 are box-drawing charcters;
When it is completed, that might be a good item to post here, if you are
willing. Even if it is in a spreadsheet file, I expect there are ways we
could convert it into HTML, which might be the most universally accessible
format.
Jordan