Re: [WMASTERS] Re: glyph choices for font encoding-version 1.2

["Dr.K. Kalyanasundaram" <kalyan@igcsun3.epfl.ch>]

Dear Prof. Schiffman:
> For starters, beyond the copyright symbol etc. we need quotation 
> marks ("inverted commas"), apostrophe, colon, semicolon, 
> question mark, exclamation point, period (full stop), comma. 

In the 8-bit character encoding that we are currently discussing
all of the above punctuation marks are already there in the lower
ASCII part (slots 0-127). I did not include them in my gif picture
since the basic ascii part 0-127 is a well-known entity.
One point is that, the list includes only the straight single (')
and double (") quotes and the curly equivalent ones.
In case you have not a handy lower ASCII table to refer to,
I reproduce the contents of this part at the end of this email.

In 7-bit fonts, one needs to make provisions for these along
with the glyphs for tamil characters/alphabets. We do have
already several 7-bit fonts in the field carrying the complete
set. Mylai tamil font of mine for example, has most of these
characters (quotes " or ' are missing) along with tamil glyphs.
So we do have several working fonts to refer to.

Kalyan

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Plain ASCII characters

Slots 0-31 are reserved for control characters
 32   space  (control character)
 33    !     exclamation mark  (exclam)
 34    "     double straight quote (quoteddbl)
 35    #     numerical sign (numbersign)
 36    $     dollar sign (dollar)
 37    %     percentage sign (percentage)
 38    &     ambersand (ambersand)
 39    '     single straight quote (quotesingle)
 40    (     left parenthesis (parenleft)
 41    )     right parenthesis (parenright)
 42    *     multiplication sign (asterisk)
 43    +     plus/addition sign (plus)
 44    ,     comma (comma)
 45    -     minus/hyphenate sign (hyphen)
 46    .     full stop/period (period)
 47    /     divide/slash (slash)
 48    0     numeral zero  (zero)
 49    1     numeral one  (one)
 50    2     numeral two  (two)
 51    3     numeral three (three)
 52    4     numeral four (four)
 53    5     numeral five (five)
 54    6     numeral six (six)
 55    7     numeral seven (seven)
 56    8     numeral eight (eight)
 57    9     numeral nine (nine)
 58    :     colon   (colon)
 59    ;     semi-colon (semicolon)
 60    <     less than sign (less)
 61    =     equal to sign (equal)
 62    >     greater than sign (greater)
 63    ?     question mark (question)
 64    @     at sign (at)
 65    A     latin capital letter A
 66    B     latin capital letter B
 67    C     latin capital letter C
 68    D     latin capital letter D
 69    E     latin capital letter E
 70    F     latin capital letter F
 71    G     latin capital letter G
 72    H     latin capital letter H
 73    I     latin capital letter I
 74    J     latin capital letter J
 75    K     latin capital letter K
 76    L     latin capital letter L
 77    M     latin capital letter M
 78    N     latin capital letter N
 79    O     latin capital letter O
 80    P     latin capital letter P
 81    Q     latin capital letter Q
 82    R     latin capital letter R
 83    S     latin capital letter S
 84    T     latin capital letter T
 85    U     latin capital letter U
 86    V     latin capital letter V
 87    W     latin capital letter W
 88    X     latin capital letter X
 89    Y     latin capital letter Y
 90    Z     latin capital letter Z
 91    [     left square bracket (bracketleft)
 92    \     back slash (backslash)
 93    ]     right square bracket (bracketright)
 94    ^     asciicircum
 95    _     underscore
 96    `     grave
 97    a     latin small letter a
 98    b     latin small letter b
 99    c     latin small letter c
100    d     latin small letter d
101    e     latin small letter e
102    f     latin small letter f
103    g     latin small letter g
104    h     latin small letter h
105    i     latin small letter i
106    j     latin small letter j
107    k     latin small letter k
108    l     latin small letter l
109    m     latin small letter m
110    n     latin small letter n
111    o     latin small letter o
112    p     latin small letter p
113    q     latin small letter q
114    r     latin small letter r
115    s     latin small letter s
116    t     latin small letter t
117    u     latin small letter u
118    v     latin small letter v
119    w     latin small letter w
120    x     latin small letter x
121    y     latin small letter y
122    z     latin small letter z
123    {     left parenthesis (braceleft)
124    |     vertical bar (bar)
125    }     right parenthesis (braceright) 
126    ~     tilde (asciitilde)
127    DEL   (control character)