Re: Mac/PC interoperability

2000-08-23 Thread RenE J.V. Bertin
On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Deborah Goldsmith wrote: 8-) In Mac OS 8.5, the definition of 0xDB in the MacRoman character set changed from U+00A4 (currency sign) to U+20AC (Euro). Mac OS 8.5 and later treat 0xDB as the Euro. 8-) 8-) If you are omitting characters that don't translate, then perhaps you

Re: Mac/PC interoperability

2000-08-23 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
On Saturday, August 19, 2000, at 08:50 AM, RenE J.V. Bertin wrote: > I have a preliminary version of the fonts ready. It works, but there seems to be an > issue with the conversion of the "currency" character and the character replacing >it, > in documents coming from Mac. All other character

Mac/PC interoperability

2000-08-19 Thread RenE J.V. Bertin
Hello, I am in the process of making a font (scholarly use) that should allow seemless exchangeability of documents between Mac and PC. Thus this font would only contain those characters that exist in the standard encoding on both platforms (Windows latin 1252-1 and Mac US Roman). An additional