Re: arsclist Raw Marc Record, Orecords.mrc

[Don Cox <doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 18/12/02, stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> This would seem to make it difficult to create MARC files
> on a Windows-based (or any?) PC...

What you see on the screen on a computer that uses 8 bits per character
depends on the encoding used in the font. 

For email viewing, I use a bitmap version of Helvetica which gives
pretty much the same glyphs as you listed. If there is a problem, I can
edit the font in a font editor.

That font does not have playing cards, box corners, etc which were added
for DOS on PCs, but I have other fonts which do. Only the basic 7-bit
ASCII characters are really consistent, and even those are different in
fonts such as Symbol.

Unicode was devised to overcome all these problems. UTF-8 is a version
of Unicode which allows you to use 7-bit ASCII for most common
characters.

Any software which is planned for long term use should be using Unicode.

http://www.unicode.org/

Regards
-- 
Don Cox
doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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