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Posted by cubanica in
13 Dec 2007 — 9:49am
13 Dec 2007 — 9:49am
Does anyone know what languages are supported by the base character count in Fontlab? I believe it's 256 characters.
Obviously English, Spanish, French. What others?
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13 Dec 2007 — 11:03am
The 'Default' encoding is a Latin 1 implementation, which means it intentionally supports majority Western and Scandinavian European languages (incl. Icelandic) written in the Latin script. In this case, the definition of Western is political rather than geographic and dates from the Cold War period, i.e. Austrian is Western, but Czech is not. Minority languages are not well supported by the set, e.g. it lacks diacritics for Welsh, Saami, etc.
13 Dec 2007 — 11:10am
ISO 8859-1 (Latin 1), ISO 8859-15 (Latin 0, revised from Latin 1 to include the Euro sign and Ydierisis), MacRoman, and Windows Latin all contain support for most western European languages to varying degrees. Your default encoding is likely one of these. English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Danish, and Icelandic are generally covered in these encodings, though I think there are a few special accents and digraphs (notably the Dutch IJ and ij digraphs) that are missing for full and complete coverage of these languages.
13 Dec 2007 — 11:11am
Darn it John, you beat me to it, and with a more accurate answer too.
13 Dec 2007 — 11:18am
Thanks!
13 Dec 2007 — 5:52pm
> it lacks diacritics for Welsh
Everyone knows those Welsh are commies.
:)