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diff --git a/misc/README b/misc/README index 39d73f00a..2f4e947cc 100644 --- a/misc/README +++ b/misc/README @@ -27,50 +27,62 @@ or an editor with the corresponding codepage or locale. The UTF-8 encoded files should be usable with FLTK 1.3, FLTK 2, or FLTK 3 (future). They contain UTF-8 encoded characters at the table positions, -where the corresponding ISO-8859-1 or Windows copepage 1252 characters would -be. They should look identical as the image file (cp1252.png) on all UTF-8 -capable systems. +where the corresponding ISO-8859-1, Windows copepage 1252, or Mac OS Roman +characters would be. They should look identical as the image file (cp1252.png) +or MacRoman_utf-8.png, resp., on all UTF-8 capable systems. The files with names iso-8859-1_* contain only the ISO-8859-1 subset, i.e. -the colums with character codes x'80' - x'9F' (U+0080 - U+009F) are empty. +the colums with character codes 0x80 - 0x9F (U+0080 - U+009F) are empty. + +Mac OS Roman is the Apple Mac native character set before it became Unicode +by default (OS X). The corresponding files are ordered as they would appear +with the native character set / encoding. Special Notes: - x'22' (U+0022: "quotation mark") is doubled intentionally. This has been + 0x22 (U+0022: "quotation mark") is doubled intentionally. This has been done for better results in test/editor, because otherwise the rest of the file would be shown in blue color (as a comment). - x'98' (U+02DC: "small tilde") may not display correctly on Windows systems. + 0x98 (U+02DC: "small tilde") may not display correctly on Windows systems. I saw the same effect with other Windows editors as well. The following characters may be displayed "shifted left" by one position. Seems to work correctly on Linux (with UTF-8 encoding). + + Mac OS Roman: 0xF0 (U+F8FF: "Apple logo") may not be printable, depending + on installed fonts on other systems. There may currently be drawing artefacts when moving the cursor forwards and/or backwards over some "special" characters. - References: http://unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO8859/8859-1.TXT http://unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP1252.TXT + http://unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/ROMAN.TXT + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_Roman Files: -The first file is an image of how it should look: +The first two files are images of how it should look: - cp1252.png full Windows Codepage 1252 (Western) + cp1252.png full Windows Codepage 1252 (Western) + MacRoman_utf-8.png full Mac OS Roman character set (w/o Apple logo) The following two files contain the full Windows Codepage 1252: - cp1252.txt native (Windows) encoding, suitable for FLTK 1.1 - cp1252_utf-8.txt UTF-8 encoding, suitable for FLTK 1.3 and greater + cp1252.txt native (Windows) encoding, suitable for FLTK 1.1 + cp1252_utf-8.txt UTF-8 encoding, suitable for FLTK 1.3 and greater -The following two files contain only the ISO-8859-1 characters: +The following two files contain only the ISO-8859-1 subset: - iso-8859-1.txt native (Windows) encoding, suitable for FLTK 1.1 - iso-8859-1_utf-8.txt UTF-8 encoding, suitable for FLTK 1.3 and greater + iso-8859-1.txt native (Windows) encoding, suitable for FLTK 1.1 + iso-8859-1_utf-8.txt UTF-8 encoding, suitable for FLTK 1.3 and greater +The following file contains the full Mac OS Roman character set: + MacRoman_utf-8.txt UTF-8 encoding, suitable for FLTK 1.3 and greater + (use cp1252.txt with FLTK 1.1 on Mac OS instead) Other developer support files: ================================================================================ |