From: Nicholas Bodley
Message: 2075
Date: 2004-04-14
> Nicholas Bodley wrote:Unfortunately, Opera, afaik, makes it difficult to see the Javascript. I
>> <http://www.macchiato.com/unicode/show.html>
>> I'm curious to know where it gets its glyphs from!
>
> Most browsers have a "show source code" menu command that allows you to
> read the script contained in the top frame.
> JavaScript programming language, it is easy to recognize the piece ofSeems like rather messy syntax! :)
> code which builds the URL for each character's picture:
>
> doc.write('<img src="http://www.unicode.org/gifs/24/',
> hexValue.substring(0,hexValue.length-2), '/U', hexValue,
> '.gif" alt="', hexValue, '">');
> Assuming that the character code contained in variable <hexValue> is 262EAfter I posted that message, I had started to conclude that something like
> (the peace symbol), what the above code does is inserting in the bottom
> frame the following HTML code:
>
> <img src="http://www.unicode.org/gifs/24/26/U262E.gif" alt="262E">
>
> This HTML code simply shows a picture stored in a subdirectory of the
> Unicode Consortium's server, namely:
>
> http://www.unicode.org/gifs/24/26/U262E.gif
> guess that the Unicode's server contains at least another collection ofAt the moment, I'm wondering to what degree the process of creating the
> GIF's with a different size.
> Mike Davis, the owner of www.macchiato.com and author of this script, isNo wonder Macchiato is an impressive Web site (imho)! Thanks for telling
> one of the inventors of Unicode and the current chairman of the Unicode
> Consortium, so he clearly has a good understanding of the data present on
> his own organization's web server, and exploited it to craft this little
> piece of magic.
>> One thinks there's something like a complete Unicode font hidingI'm thinking of Everson Mono...
> somewhere.
>
> No, I don't think such a thing exists.
> AFAIK, current font technologiesArial Unicode has an impressive number of code points. If it's installed,
> (including TrueType/OpenType) would not even allow you to have so many
> characters into a single font.
> But, of course, there must exist at least one *collection* of fontsIndeed. I'm too slow to abandon the idea of making my machine totally
> containing all the Unicode characters, or it wouldn't have been possible
> to publish "The Unicode Standard" book.