Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
Personally I have stopped using Arial and the other msttcorefonts since I
discovered that some of the characters didn't follow the UTF-8 character
table.
I think you may have been confused because this seems to be to be very
bad advice.
ALL characters in the msttcorefonts follow Unicode standards and agree
with printed Unicode tables. See http://www.unicode.org/charts/ .
There are a few characters that appear in the Private Use Area and so
may seem non-standard. These may be what you are talking about.
But the Private Use area is set aside by Unicode design to be used for
non-standard characters. Font designers (not just for Microsoft fonts)
often use this area for characters not found in Unicode which they wish
to use, or for variant accents and other odd characters. Characters in
the Private Use Area are supposed to be non-standard and should never be
used in normal text in any font, unless you know that the person
receiving your data has exactly the same version of the same font as you
do, or you intend your document to be published in PDS or a similar
format which will retain all font glyph information and display the
characters of the original source regardless of what fonts the viewer
has installed.
Possibly that was your difficulty.
Nor is there any such thing as a UTF-8 character table separate from a
plain, ordinary Unicode table, except that one could create a table
giving hex or decimal versions of the UTF-8 binary values for each
Unicode character instead of the standard Unicode values.
Jim Allan
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