Peter Kirk wrote:
Chris, this may be true for those of who are still using pre-Unicode applications and code pages. But for those of us using Unicode applications on Unicode-based OSs it is the PUA characters which are stored. This point caused no end of problems when Word 97 was introduced, and documents such as legacy Hebrew were converted to the new format either according to the code page or into the PUA symbol area according to certain details in the font which at that time few of us understood. But in the past 7 years we have come to work mostly with Unicode applications and so have almost forgotten about such pains.
Your right! - it's been so many years since I used anything that used a Windows symbol font encoding hack that I hadn't hadn't noticed the change. Most of the more recent font-hack encodings seem to use
"Windows ANSI" for the font encoding.
- Chris
