Muke Tever <muke@...> wrote:

> It is true, however, that in fonts with _non-standard_ encodings only the
> space and 223 characters will be accessible, according to the TrueType
> specification, chapter 3:
>
> << Under both OS/2 and Windows, only the first 224 characters of non-standard
> fonts will be accessible: a space and up to 223 printing characters. >>

Those using Windows XP (or another version with Unicode Character Map) can see
the effect of this by going into Character Map and switching from a standard font
such as Arial (whose character codes in the status bar are given in Unicode form,
e.g. U+0021 Exclamation Mark) to a nonstandard font such as Wingdings--whose
character codes are given in a range from 0x21 to 0xFF, i.e. a range of 223 characters.


Voilà.


*Muke!
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