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Re: make-char 'symbol weirdness
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James Cloos |
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Re: make-char 'symbol weirdness |
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Tue, 04 May 2010 15:02:16 -0400 |
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>>>>> "SS" == Sam Steingold <address@hidden> writes:
SS> yes, but gamma is 947, and chi is 967, so _why_ is c mapped to chi
SS> and not gamma?!
The mapping is that of the Postscript font /Symbol's encoding. Clearly
either Adobe or Apple wanted a phonetic mapping, presumably so that
keyboard entry would be intuitive for the Mac's (initial) market.
Remember also that the /Symbol font had Greek not for setting Greek text
but rather for setting Math and the like.
-JimC
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