Re: DEC Publishing character set

From: Alan Adams (alan.adams_at_orchard-way.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: 06/14/04 

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 22:48:15 +0100

In message <caksof$27l$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>
          n04W25+mgk25@cl.cam.ac.uk (Markus Kuhn) wrote:

> I'm looking for any information or idea you might have about
> a character set or encoding, or a font called "DEC Publishing".

I seem to remember that the VT100 user manual listed all the character sets
contained in the VT100. The same probably applied to the LN03, but I think
such useful information was dropped from later manuals.

I don't have either of these, but it might narrow down your search somewhat.

>
> Where was such a thing defined and what does it look like?
>
> Background: I'm trying to define for the next X.Org X11
> release an official mapping table between X11 keysyms and
> Unicode. Many of the keysyms were obviously derived from
> ISO 8859. There is also a range called "Technical" in the
> keysym table, which starts like
>
> #ifdef XK_TECHNICAL
> #define XK_leftradical 0x8a1
> #define XK_topleftradical 0x8a2
> #define XK_horizconnector 0x8a3
> #define XK_topintegral 0x8a4
> #define XK_botintegral 0x8a5
> #define XK_vertconnector 0x8a6
> #define XK_topleftsqbracket 0x8a7
> #define XK_botleftsqbracket 0x8a8
> #define XK_toprightsqbracket 0x8a9
> ...
>
> which is obviously derived from the "DEC Technical" character
> set described on
>
> http://www.vt100.net/charsets/technical.html
>
> There is also another keysym code range called "Publishing", with
> codes like
>
> #ifdef XK_PUBLISHING
> #define XK_emspace 0xaa1
> #define XK_enspace 0xaa2
> #define XK_em3space 0xaa3
> #define XK_em4space 0xaa4
> #define XK_digitspace 0xaa5
> #define XK_punctspace 0xaa6
> #define XK_thinspace 0xaa7
> #define XK_hairspace 0xaa8
> #define XK_emdash 0xaa9
> #define XK_endash 0xaaa
> #define XK_signifblank 0xaac
> #define XK_ellipsis 0xaae
> #define XK_doubbaselinedot 0xaaf
> #define XK_onethird 0xab0
> #define XK_twothirds 0xab1
> #define XK_onefifth 0xab2
> #define XK_twofifths 0xab3
> #define XK_threefifths 0xab4
> ...
> #define XK_telephone 0xaf9
> #define XK_telephonerecorder 0xafa
> #define XK_phonographcopyright 0xafb
> #define XK_caret 0xafc
> #define XK_singlelowquotemark 0xafd
> #define XK_doublelowquotemark 0xafe
> #define XK_cursor 0xaff
> #endif /* XK_PUBLISHING */
>
> and my hope is that this just another less well known DEC
> character set. If I had a code chart (e.g., copied from some old
> manual or internal specification) of the historic
> character set or font that modivated the assignment of these
> keysyms, that would be immensely useful to proofreading
> the official keysym<->Unicode mapping table.
>
> Thanks for any hints that you might have!
>
> Markus
> 

-- 
Alan Adams
alan.adams@orchard-way.freeserve.co.uk
http://www.nckc.org.uk/

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