Rev will see the characters as numeric values and return the same list of numeric values; but will the first character always display as "�" and the last character as "�" on all Rev platforms & all fonts?
I checked the Rev Dictionary for "diacritical" but the three references (find, toLower, toUpper) weren't much help.
If you mean, do you get the same glyph for each ascii number, then no, not even between fonts on the same platform. If you look in any font display program, you'll see the variations that occur in the high-ascii ranges in different fonts (the old Mac KeyCaps app was good for this.) And in dingbat and symbol fonts, even the low-ascii glyphs are different.
But you probably knew that, so maybe I don't understand what you're asking.
Jacque, et al:
I understand that different fonts will display different symbols for certain high-order characters, and that some fonts (eg: dingbat) don't display alphabetic characters at all; but I find it hard to understand how people programming applications that use high-order alphabetic characters can deal with the issue if "�" evaluates to one value in, for example, Times and a different value in Courier.
I looked through some old programming texts to compare the ASCII high-order alphabet:
UCSD Pascal Handbook & Handbook of Microprocessors, Microcomputers, & Minicomputers: ASCII table quits at 127
HC Script Language Guide (Courier font): 128-159, 203-205, 216-217, 229-239, 241-244
Think Pascal Resource Utilities and Turbo Pascal for the Mac: 128-159, 203-205, 216, [217-255 not defined]
From what I'm seeing, I want to extrapolate to conclude that 128-159, 203-205, and 216, at the least, are used to designate the same high-order alphabetic characters in alphabetic fonts; but I'm still hoping someone can clarify this for me...and explain any differences on ANSI platforms. --
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