| 1 | Sergey A. Babkin |
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| 2 | <babkin@bellatlantic.net> or <sab123@hotmail.com> |
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| 3 | (Do not edit this file, it is generated from README.html!!!) |
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| 4 | |
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| 5 | The Translation Tables |
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| 6 | ---------------------- |
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| 7 | |
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| 8 | These translation tables are used to translate the Type 1 fonts between |
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| 9 | different encodings of the same language. |
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| 10 | |
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| 11 | The file names are supposed to have the suffix .tbl. Each file |
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| 12 | describes one encoding, and all the tables for a given language |
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| 13 | are stored in the same directory. |
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| 14 | |
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| 15 | The file format is quite simple: just a sequence of rows in |
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| 16 | format |
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| 17 | |
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| 18 | <name> <decimal code> |
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| 19 | |
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| 20 | The names do not have to conform to any standard, just the same |
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| 21 | glyph must have the same name in all the files for a given language. |
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| 22 | |
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| 23 | Not all the codes need to be described in the tables, the codes that |
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| 24 | are not mentioned in the tables are left untranslated. So a file |
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| 25 | of zero length may be used in case when no translation is neccessary. |
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| 26 | |
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| 27 | The translation changes only the encoding table of the font and does not |
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| 28 | rename the glyphs in the font file. |
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| 29 | |
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| 30 | Examples |
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| 31 | -------- |
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| 32 | |
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| 33 | The directory `russian' contains the tables for some encodings of the |
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| 34 | Russian language: KOI-8, IBM CP-866, IBM CP-1251 and just for fun |
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| 35 | ISO-8859/5 (nobody uses it anyways). The tables describe both russian |
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| 36 | letters and table graphics characters (except for CP-1251 for which |
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| 37 | the table graphics is not defined, so the table graphics portion for |
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| 38 | it is just copied from KOI-8). |
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| 39 | |
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| 40 | The file for ISO-8859/1 is just a copy of file for KOI-8. It is neccessary |
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| 41 | because Netscape has rather weird ideas about the documents in |
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| 42 | KOI-8 encoding. The common way to fool Netscape is to set the KOI-8 |
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| 43 | fonts for the ISO-8859/1 encoding and set the default encoding |
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| 44 | in Netscape to 8859/1. |
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| 45 | |
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| 46 | The directory `latin1' contains an empty table for ISO-8859/1 |
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| 47 | because it does not need any translation. |
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