On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 3:55 AM, Robin Becker <ro...@reportlab.com> wrote: > I think about these as encodings, because that's what they are > mathematically, logically & practically. I can encode the target grapheme > sequence as a sequence of bytes using a particular 'unicode encoding' eg > utf8 or a sequence of code points.
By that definition, you can equally encode it as a bitmapped image, or as a series of lines and arcs, and those are equally well "encodings" of the character. This is not the normal use of that word. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encoding ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
