Re: Um...help with unicode?

From: "Roger Mills" <romilly@...>
> OK, now I have a question:  In the Font Creator Program I recently
> installed, there is a long list of (MS) Unicode stuff, in Hex format
> (decimal is available too I think) such as, among others...(I quote):
>
> $01AC Latin Cap. I with tilde
> $01AE Latin Cap. I with macron
> .....
> $01B6 and $01B7 Latin Cap/Small k with cedilla
> ....
> $01F1 - $022B most of the Greek Alphabet
> $011C on, some of the Cyrillic alphabet.
>
> (Very last) $028C Small Greek letter pi
> Unquote
> (I take it 028C = 268 in base ten??)
Nope, it's 652.

> It strikes me that many of these correspond to characters already available
> on my Win98/WP8 machine in the various Special Characters options,
> Multinational fonts etc.  So I'm wondering, if I used these code nos. in a
> web document, would they show up as advertised?  Presumably that "$" has to
> be replaced with "&", but anything else? (Obviously I haven't tried it yet.
> These things scare me)
Actualy, I don't think it would.  First off, since it's hex, it'd have to be
"&#x028C" (I think is the format--with a semicolon at the end), and not all
browsers understand character references in hex, so you'd want to convert it to
decimal, "&#652" with a semicolon.

But second off, even though it looks like you're describing the WGL4, these
numbers don't correspond to Unicode values.

    01AC = Latin Capital T with Hook
           (Cap I with tilde = 0128)
    01AE = Latin Capital T with Retroflex hook
           (Cap I with Macron = 012A)
    01B6 = Latin small letter z with stroke
           (K-cedilla = 0137)
    01B7 = latin capital Ezh
           (k-cedilla = 0138)
    01F1-022B = Latin capital DZ to small letter o with dieresis and macron
                (Greek = 0374 to 03E0, roughly)
    011C = Latin Capital G with circumflex
           (Cyrillic = 0400 to 04F9 or so)

    028C = the IPA symbol for [V]
           (small pi = 03C0)

so I don't know what your program is doing.

    *Muke!
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