Re: DEC Publishing character set

From: Markus Kuhn (n04W25+mgk25_at_cl.cam.ac.uk)
Date: 06/15/04 

Date: 15 Jun 2004 12:55:30 GMT

Alan Adams <alan.adams@orchard-way.freeserve.co.uk> writes:
> 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 have checked VT100 manuals, and it seems this terminal does not
support the mysterious "DEC Publishing" character set that I'm looking
for. The best hint I got so far was from Paul Williams:

  I think that this set is called
  "DEC Publishing" and was developed for DECwrite, and appropriate fonts
  were provided for people using DECwrite on X (DECwindows).

  DECwrite manipulated documents stored in DEC's Compound Document
  Architecture (CDA), and I've come across a header file with CDA
  definitions that includes these lines:

  http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena/service/scratch/kcr/srvd-7.2/usr/include/cda_def.h

  /* Character set identification codes (DEC STD 169). */
  #define CDA$K_ISO_LATIN1 1 /* ISO Latin 1 (ISO 8859-1) */
  #define CDA$K_ISO_LATIN2 2 /* ISO Latin 2 (ISO 8859-2) */
  #define CDA$K_ISO_LATIN6 3 /* ISO Latin-Arabic (ISO 8859-6) */
  #define CDA$K_ISO_LATIN7 4 /* ISO Latin-Greek (ISO 8859-7) */
  #define CDA$K_ISO_LATIN8 6 /* ISO Latin-Hebrew (ISO 8859-8) */
  #define CDA$K_JIS_KATAKANA 32 /* JIS Roman, JIS Katakana (JIS X0201) */
  #define CDA$K_DEC_TECH 33 /* DEC Special Graphics, DEC Technical */
  #define CDA$K_DEC_MATH_ITALIC 34 /* DEC Mathematics Italic */
  #define CDA$K_DEC_MATH_SYMBOL 35 /* DEC Mathematics Symbol */
  #define CDA$K_DEC_MATH_EXTENSION 36 /* DEC Mathematics Extension */
  #define CDA$K_DEC_PUBLISHING 37 /* DEC Publishing */
  #define CDA$K_DEC_KANJI 64 /* DEC Kanji (JIS X0208) */
  #define CDA$K_DEC_HANZI 65 /* DEC Hanzi (GB 2312) */

  Look at that top comment. It looks as if DEC STD 169 (internal only)
  could contain the information you seek.

Anyone here with a copy of "DEC STD 169" sitting on the
shelf, by any chance? Or some other source of a "DEC Publishing"
character set code chart?

Markus 

-- 
Markus Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ || CB3 0FD, Great Britain

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