Dear Derek, Dennis, Michael and friends,

here is a comprehensive passage on the technical issues of Unicode
and ISO, with links at the bottom of the page:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Special_characters


metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Derek wrote:

One way is to use a private encoding system. This is the approached
adopted by fonts such as VRI, CSX, and Times Normyn. The other way is
to use the Unicode system of encoding. In Unicode, the ranges of
characters we need are called Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin
Extended A, and Latin Extended Additional. All standard fonts now
support Basic Latin and Latin-1 Supplement, and many support Latin
Extended A. It is the need for Latin Extended Additional that limits
our choice. For a list of fonts that support Latin Extended
Additional, see Alan Wood's Web Site. Note that not all fonts provide
representations ("glyphs") of all characters in this range. For the
representation of Pali characters in plain text without a special
font, the Velthuis system has become standard."