[sword-devel] SIL Ezra fonts

Joel Mawhorter sword-devel@crosswire.org
Fri, 27 Sep 2002 23:18:56 -0700


On September 27, 2002 22:49, Joel Mawhorter wrote:
> Why use a Windows specific encoding for a cross-platform library?
>
> I don't think Codepage 1252 could be a superset of ISO-8859-1; aren't they
> both one byte encodings? 

Opps, check first, speak second. You're right CP1252 is a suberset of 
ISO-8859-1. I guess I should read James 1:19 more often. :)

> Maybe just really close? Do we use anything above
> 0x7f in Codepage 1252? I assume all the european stuff is up there.
>
> What about Hebrew and Greek? Do we use UTF-8 for that?
>
> Sorry for all the questions. I'm just trying to figure out what needs to be
> dealt with for the searching stuff.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joel
>
> > --Chris