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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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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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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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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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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