Fonts & encodings / Yannis Haralambous ; translated by P. Scott Horne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haralambous, Yannis, 1962-

Contributor:

Horne, P. Scott.

Standardized Title:

Fontes & codages. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Character sets (Data processing).

Computer fonts.

Type and type-founding--Digital techniques.

Type and type-founding.

Unicode (Computer character set).

Web typography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1039 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Fonts and encodings

Place of Publication:

Beijing ; Sebastopol, California : O'Reilly Media, 2007.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This reference is a fascinating and complete guide to using fonts and typography on the Web and across a variety of operating systems and application software. Fonts & Encodings shows you how to take full advantage of the incredible number of typographic options available, with advanced material that covers everything from designing glyphs to developing software that creates and processes fonts. The era of ASCII characters on green screens is long gone, and industry leaders such as Apple, HP, IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle have adopted the Unicode Worldwide Character Stan

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; Explorations; The Letter and Its Parts; Letterpress Typesetting; Digital Typesetting; Font Formats; Between Characters and Glyphs: the Problems of the Electronic Document; The Structure of the Book and Ways to Use It; How to Read This Book; For the well-versed user of Unicode; For the devoted TEXist; For the reader who simply wants to produce beautiful documents; For the reader who wishes to create beautiful Web pages; For the typophile or collector of fonts; For the novice font designer; For the experienced font designer; For the developer of applications

For the reader who doesn't match any of the preceding profilesHow to Contact Us; Before Unicode; FIELDATA; ASCII; EBCDIC; ISO 2022; ISO 8859; ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) and ISO 8859-15 (Latin-9); ISO 8859-2 (Latin-2) and ISO 8859-16 (Latin-10); ISO 8859-3 (Latin-3) and ISO 8859-9 (Latin-5); ISO 8859-4 (Latin-4), ISO 8859-10 (Latin-6), and ISO 8859-13 (Latin-7); ISO 8859-5, 6, 7, 8, 11; ISO 8859-14 (Latin-8); The Far East; Microsoft's code pages; Apple's encodings; Electronic mail; The Web; Characters, glyphs, bytes: An introduction to Unicode 53; Philosophical issues: characters and glyphs

First principlesPrinciple #1: universality; Principle #2: efficiency; Principle #3: the difference between characters and glyphs; Principle #4: the well-defined semantics of characters; Principle #5: plain text; Principle #6: logical order; Principle #7: unification; Principle #8: dynamic composition; Principle #9: equivalent sequences; Principle #10: convertibility; Unwritten principle #11: permanent stability; Technical issues: characters and bytes; Character encoding forms; UTF-16 and surrogates; Detection of endianness; UTF-8 and CESU-8; SCSU and BOCU

General organization of Unicode: planes and blocksThe BMP (Basic Multilingual Plane); Higher planes; Scripts proposed for addition; Approved proposals in balloting; Proposals in early committee review; Proposals in the initial and exploratory stages; Properties of Unicode characters; Basic properties; Name; Block and script; Age; General category; Letters; Diacritical marks; Numbers; Punctuation; Symbols; Separators; The remaining categories; Other general properties; Spaces; Alphabetic characters; Noncharacters; Ignorable characters; Deprecated characters; Logical-order exceptions

Soft-dotted lettersMathematical characters; Quotation marks; Dashes; Hyphens; Terminal punctuation; Diacritics; Extenders; Join control; The Unicode 1 name and ISO's comments; Properties that pertain to case; Uppercase letters; Lowercase letters; Simple lowercase/uppercase/titlecase mappings; Special lowercase/uppercase/titlecase mappings; Case folding; Rendering properties; The Arabic and Syriac scripts; Managing grapheme clusters; Numeric properties; Identifiers; Reading a Unicode block; Normalization, Bidirectionality, and East Asian characters; Decompositions and Normalizations

Combining Characters

Notes:

"Covers PostScript, TrueType, OpenType, AAT, Metafont, and more".

"From Unicode to advanced typography and everything in between".

Translation of: Fontes & codages.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 969-989) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-596-51834-X

OCLC:

774401212