Re: international text

>From: Travis Wall <wallt(at)cadvision.com>
>>    Unless they're using a non-standard character set,
>>    in which case it would be whatever glyph happens
>>    to be in space 247.

>Could you explain this more? What is a non-standard character set?
>How do you know if you are using one? And, what is a glyph that happens
>to be in space 247?


    Sure, a non standard character set is a font file
    with characters other than the regular ascii
    characters. You can check using a character map
    and comparing the character list to a standard
    typeface (MS Sans Serif would be good, though
    Arial or TNR would do well too). A glyph is a
    clever name for a character in a typeface (or more
    technically, the shape of a specific character, like
    'a'). And there are 256 spaces in the average TrueType
    font file (until the Unicode fonts were released, but
    still it defaults to the basic ASCII character set) but
    the numbering starts at 0 - so if you're looking at
    character #0246 (�) its actually the 247th character
    in the set. And yes, there are a great deal of non
    standard character sets out there - most of them
    are in freeware fonts which don't include accented
    characters, but you can also find oldstyle figure sets,
    or expert sets (the former has a set of small capitals
    and a few changed glyphs, the latter is a completely
    different set including ligatures and fractions like
    5/16).

regards
travis

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