P.S. (A.S., really! Ante Scriptum? :) ) OK, I did a bad with this,
abandoning the topic before I finished it. I'm leaving it with some
discovered links...

Won't do any harm, just can mislead you to a fare-thee-well (ESL: a lot).

Some generous, but only partially-informed people have prepared code
charts, for, say, ISO-8859-1, and simply typed all the characters in that
repertoire when they prepared the HTML tables. There is one enormous trap
there, as recent specific MacRoman/Latin-1 differences have shown.

It's essential to realize that if it's not ASCII, and that means only
characters included in the first 128 code points:
What you type, and see on your screen, is *not* necessarily what
someone else will see when they look at the file/message you created.

Unicode strives to eliminate that problem. These conditionally-bogus code
charts are potentially really misleading. If viewed in another encoding,
they are partly wrong, conceivably even totally wrong. The only valid code
chart has little images showing what each character should look like for
each code point. Alan Wood's are more than likely to be OK; Unicode's are
utterly trustworthy.

{Googling to find specimens} {Inline postscript: After poking at varous
links, I didn't find a specimen, a bad example, of what I was looking
for. Maybe those are a thing of the past. Sorry to abandon a topic. At
least, I've given a hint. --nb}

Hey, back here in 10 seconds. *Of Course!!* You *can* trust, utterly
trust, the PDF charts from Unicode.org. I'm showing my age (yang+yin
--69...), tercer edad.

[off-topic trivia:]
Until I rebuild, PDFs are a pain; Adobe Reader is bloatware that takes
much too long to start on my older machine, and trying to render a PDF
directly from Opera is likely to lock up the machine (Adobe, not Opera),
requiring power cycling. (No Reset button on mine.) Linux will be my
primary OS before too long.

[Happy discovery, ON-topic:]
OK: Unexpected bonus. Imho, a must-see! Menota and MUFI, also a fine
example of how to do a code chart. Oodles of little GIFs...
<http://gandalf.aksis.uib.no/menota/guidelines/tools/entities/charlist_1-1.html>
Broadband helps; *lots* of little GIFs there!

Seems that this is a large repertoire for study of old Norwegian texts.

Scroll down, and imho you'll see *many* treats. It looks like a very good
example of merging Unicode standard code points with their definitions in
the Private Use Area (PUA). Haven't had so much fun since I discovered
[per mille] and Much Else, in the Unicode 1.0 first volume.

The little-glyph repertoire:
<http://gandalf.aksis.uib.no/menota/guidelines/tools/entities/glyphs/>

NPR's Science Friday, half of it, is on the radio...

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Nicholas Bodley /*|*\ Waltham, Mass.
The curious hermit -- autodidact and polymath