Re: Dealing with non-standard character sets
Re: Dealing with non-standard character sets
- Subject: Re: Dealing with non-standard character sets
- From: Allan Odgaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 18:02:19 +0200
On 5. May 2004, at 16:40, Michael Heinz wrote:
I'm trying to display text generated by a device that uses it's own
8-bit ASCII character set. I bashed together a font that had the
special characters in the correct places, but the Mac seems to ignore
those characters in favor of whatever the current "encoding" is.
Certainly not something I'm well versed in but could you let the
encoding of the font be unicode, use code points from one of the
private/vendor specific pages (for the 256 characters you have drawn)
and then, when you want to display "text" from the device, convert the
8 bit characters from the device to those code points defined in your
font?
I would think that most parts of Cocoa is ignorant about encodings as
in MacRoman, MacGreek, MacWhatever, as these are AFAIK legacy stuff
from Classic.
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