[oak perl] Review of "Fonts & Encodings"

[George Woolley]

hi elijah,
thanks very much 
for the comments on my review.

== typo
that's the title the author gives the chapter.
also see randal schwartz's post.

== chapter numbers
i see your point.
i've changed the list of chapter titles 
from unordered to ordered, etc.

== fonts experience
it's cool that you've actually created fonts.

== questions
i believe the answers to your questions
are: no, no, no.

== request
if convenient,
i request you explain the difference
between character set and character encoding
[or alternatively provide a url
of an explanation you endorse]?

==
skoal,
george

p.s. i acknowledged you in the acknowledgments section
[well down in the left column].
let me know if you don't like what i included
or if i transmogrified any part of it.
	
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     On Sunday 20 January 2008 20:41, Eli the Bearded wrote:
> George wrote:
> > there is a review of "Fonts & Encodings"
> > on our site should you wish to read it.
> >
> > corrections and comments would be appreciated.
>
> Minor typo:
> 	Instead I focused on:
>
> 	    * Chapter 8: Font Management under X Window
>
> s/Window/Windows/
>
> Comments: in several places you mention chapters by number without
> giving titles or rough descriptions of the contents. Yet no where
> do you list the titles of each of the chapters for someone without
> the book to know what those are.
>
> I've made fonts before (mostly bitmap, but one TrueType), but I
> haven't done it in years. The last font I made was in 1993 or so,
> and I expect character encodings have changed things considerably.
> These days converting fonts from one format to another would be
> more likely to interest me.
>
> I have some questions about the content.
>
> Does it elucidate the difference between "character encoding" and
> "character set"? I don't need to know that, but I think more people
> do. (Within Unicode, a single character set, there are multiple
> encodings like UTF-7 and UTF-8, as an example.)
>
> Does it cover using fonts from, eg, Perl? I've recently had a need
> to create Flash (.swf) files from Perl with multi-lingual content.
> Since it is somewhat rare for any particular font to have all of
> Unicode covered it would be useful to know how to query a font to
> see if it has the needed characters. The Ming module offers the
> less-than-ideal "coredump upon using a missing character" test.
>
> Does it cover the differences between Unicode versions? I know
> Unicode 3 is the latest, but how does it differ from Unicode 2?
>
> Elijah
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