Re: ASCII convention

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter T Daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Peter> You seem to be talking about internet. I'm talking about
Peter> fonts on desktop computers. Nothing to do with
Peter> "transcoding." Only the difference between Mac and Windows.
>> Don't you know that an important element of a font is the
>> encoding, which tells the computer how to map character codes
>> to glyphs? When you use a font with an encoding that doesn't
>> match your text string, you won't get the correct glyphs, and
>> hence you'll see strange things.

Peter> That's what I said, avoiding jargon.

Which of the words I used was jargon? I thought you're more familiar
with "glyph" than anybody else.

"Encoding"? "to map"?


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