Subject: Re: some minor postscript fixes
From: F J Franklin (F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Oct 30 2000 - 09:24:15 CST
On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> UT_Byte can't be > 0xff IMO (0xff is the maximum value that fits in
> UT_Byte).
In C/C++ a `byte' is by definition the size of a char, so that
sizeof(char) = 1, irrespective of the actual number of bits. (We had a
long discussion about this on comp.unix.programming a while back that was
never resolved to my satisfaction.) Personally I find this concept of a
machine-dependent definition of `byte' (as opposed to the conventional
definition: 8 bits = 1 byte) to be profoundly disturbing.
On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, F J Franklin wrote:
>> if "Scaron" == "germandbls", then
>> ?? "scaron" may just be the same as "Scaron" = 0x00DF
>> ?? "zcaron"
>> ?? "Zcaron"
Okay, to answer my own query: On the use of scaron/zcaron in loan words
assimilated into the Finnish language see
http://www.hut.fi/u/tuhkanen/Sery-C/Hattujuttu-EN.html
A `caron' is an inverted circumflex and one appears in the postscript
font's natural encoding but not in the the encoding used by AbiWord.
`zcaron' is `z' + caron; `Zcaron' is `Z' + caron;
`scaron' is `s' + caron; `Scaron' is `S' + caron.
None of these are in the standard encoding, however.
I don't know why Zcaron was linked with "germandbls" (a.k.a. Eszett).
Frank
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Francis James Franklin
F.J.Franklin@shef.ac.uk
Diodorus the professor of logic died of shame because he could not at once
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--- Pliny the Elder
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