From: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
To: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: make-char 'symbol weirdness
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 15:02:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3wrvj4hin.fsf@lugabout.jhcloos.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <r2v1f77704b1005040657j9f8cff26u92db73146f6f3297@mail.gmail.com> (Sam Steingold's message of "Tue, 4 May 2010 09:57:10 -0400")
>>>>> "SS" == Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org> writes:
SS> yes, but gamma is 947, and chi is 967, so _why_ is c mapped to chi
SS> and not gamma?!
The mapping is that of the Postscript font /Symbol's encoding. Clearly
either Adobe or Apple wanted a phonetic mapping, presumably so that
keyboard entry would be intuitive for the Mac's (initial) market.
Remember also that the /Symbol font had Greek not for setting Greek text
but rather for setting Math and the like.
-JimC
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James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-04 19:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-03 21:35 make-char 'symbol weirdness Sam Steingold
2010-05-03 22:53 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-05-04 3:34 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-05-04 13:57 ` Sam Steingold
2010-05-04 14:44 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-05-04 16:04 ` Juri Linkov
2010-05-04 17:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-04 17:55 ` Davis Herring
2010-05-04 19:02 ` James Cloos [this message]
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