RE: TeX <-> Unicode mapping

[Caolan McNamara <Caolan.McNamara@ul.ie>]

On 14-Oct-99 Birger Langkjer wrote:
>Den man, 11 okt 1999 skrev du:
>> On 10-Oct-99 Markus Kuhn wrote:
>...
>> Another query I have is to do with window's wonderful wingding font, is
>there a 
>> nice table hiding somewhere to map this to unicode chars, or are they
>completely
>> arbitrary drawings (what I suspect) that do not exist anywhere else in the
>known
>> universe, in which case for the html conversion I can just give up and spit
>out 
>> graphics in their place.
>
>What do these glyphs look like? Is it like the the dingbats?
>
>> The final thing that bothers me is the windows symbol font, surely I can map
>> these chars to unicode chars ?, in the ftp.unicode.org site I cant find a 
>> premade mapping table, am i missing something here ?
>
>Can't you just use the normal greek fonts in 0391-03F3 ?
>I have tried to make such a mapping table, but I don't if it's correct. Please
>let me know if it is wrong:

Well first off I did find the symbol mapping table after all, it was hiding 
under vendors/adobe rather than vendors/microsoft where I was looking on
ftp.unicode.org and I'm happily using that table for the symbol font. The
zdingbat table also in that dir is at least close to the wingding font, so I 
was going to try and check that one out to put together a table for any entries
that are different and use that instead, meanwhile I have hit one or two 
another problem fonts which have similar problems. The reason for all this is 
that im writing a microsoft word 6/7/8 parsing library for linux and I want
to always output standard unicode chars.

C.


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