[texhax] IBM 437 Encoding

[Ross Moore]

On 21/10/2004, at 2:35 AM, klists at saphor.de wrote:

> Is this any different from the old DOS codepage 437 (the subject of
> the mail speaks of cp437)? All of the glyphs of CP437 are in the UCS
> for sure. A new iconv version should be able to handle such
> files. iconv (GNU libc) 2.3.2, the version distributed with debian
> testing systems certainly doesn't have any problems to convert these
> to UTF-8.
>
> Which fonts support this under TeX is a different question.

Try XeTeX under MacOS X, using the Code2000 font.

     http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
     http://home.att.net/~jameskass/   (for Code2000 and Code2001)

If the Mac can display the font, then XeTeX can typeset with it,
creating a PDF directly.


Hope this helps,

	Ross Moore


>
> Best regards,
>
> Marc
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