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Sep. 26th, 2003 10:58 pmUnicode is two glyphs away from being able to represent the entire ATASCII character set.
It needs an UPPER ONE QUARTER BLOCK, and a RIGHT ONE QUARTER BLOCK, to match its lower and left counterparts.
I've been goofing around in the font editor, editing the ATASCII font -- it has all the groovy graphics characters, but it doesn't bother to tell Windows which ones aren't quite ASCII. So I can't just use it as my browser font, because the { will look like a spade suit, and that's a fate worse than death.
I have lots of nitpicks about the way Windows fonts map into Unicode, that are hard to articulate. Mostly, I'm a bit perturbed about that Turkish code page. There's Turkish characters in Latin-3, the code page that also has Esperanto characters. But then they put out Latin-5, which is exactly like Latin-1 except it has Turkish characters. So Windows fonts all have the Turkish code page, but they never have the Esperanto code page in their little drop down boxes. Though, thankfully, they still have Esperanto characters, it's just you need to download some exotic keyboard handler to type them. I don't understand why it isn't possible with Windows' own keyboard handler, the one that I use to type Ελληνικά and Русский. But somehow I bet it's tied into the fonts.
Well, if I did mess around with the ATASCII font's mapping, I'm not sure I could do it in a way that won't goof up terminal emulators.
It needs an UPPER ONE QUARTER BLOCK, and a RIGHT ONE QUARTER BLOCK, to match its lower and left counterparts.
I've been goofing around in the font editor, editing the ATASCII font -- it has all the groovy graphics characters, but it doesn't bother to tell Windows which ones aren't quite ASCII. So I can't just use it as my browser font, because the { will look like a spade suit, and that's a fate worse than death.
I have lots of nitpicks about the way Windows fonts map into Unicode, that are hard to articulate. Mostly, I'm a bit perturbed about that Turkish code page. There's Turkish characters in Latin-3, the code page that also has Esperanto characters. But then they put out Latin-5, which is exactly like Latin-1 except it has Turkish characters. So Windows fonts all have the Turkish code page, but they never have the Esperanto code page in their little drop down boxes. Though, thankfully, they still have Esperanto characters, it's just you need to download some exotic keyboard handler to type them. I don't understand why it isn't possible with Windows' own keyboard handler, the one that I use to type Ελληνικά and Русский. But somehow I bet it's tied into the fonts.
Well, if I did mess around with the ATASCII font's mapping, I'm not sure I could do it in a way that won't goof up terminal emulators.
