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Re: Font names
From: |
Antoine Leca |
Subject: |
Re: Font names |
Date: |
Thu, 20 Apr 2000 11:46:54 +0200 |
Mark Holdgrafer wrote:
>
> I have been trying to extract the name field of fonts lately and have
> found that some are eight bit character strings and others are 16. How
> does one tell them apart, aside from looking for a NULL in the wrong
> place?
The _encoding_ used to select the names gives the clue.
To make it short:
- for the platform Apple Unicode (id=0), all encodings are 16-bit
- for the platform Microsoft (id=3), all encoding seem to be 16-bit
- for the platform Apple (id=1), all encoding are 8-bit AFAIK, but
sometimes Japanese (encoding=1), Chinese (2 or 25) and Korean (3)
uses uniform 16-bit characters (even for ASCII characters) where
one can expect DBCS (mixed 8-/16-bit)
- platform ISO (id=2) is deprecated, I do not believe you will
encounter it anyway
Hope it helps,
Antoine
- Font names, Mark Holdgrafer, 2000/04/19
- Re: Font names,
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