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Cyrillic letter O (<- this is a Latin O) (Sandbox)

posted by alexfru, USA, 09.06.2025, 15:07

> Real Cyrillic letter О

Trying the letter again here:

4. btw, the various 8-bit code pages won't be universally applicable
to such fonts, so, at the very least no code pages should be forced
onto a font (it's OK to support the first 128 ASCII chars and
maybe the next 128 from the code page, but if there are more chars
after the first 256, it should be OK, just use the character
index in the font, don't try to force some Unicode code points
on it or let the user supply a table; further, a single char
may be a reasonable representation of multiple code points (e.g.
Latin O, Greek Omicron, Cyrillic О), which is extremely useful
space-wise and a simple binary search can convert from a
code point to the relevant index in the font, suddenly making
512-char bitmap fonts very very practical!

HTH

Complete thread:

• Cyrillic letter O (<- this is a Latin O) - rr, 09.06.2025, 15:03
  • Cyrillic letter O (<- this is a Latin O) - rr, 09.06.2025, 15:06
  • Cyrillic letter O (<- this is a Latin O) - alexfru, 09.06.2025, 15:07
    • Cyrillic letter O (<- this is a Latin O) - alexfru, 09.06.2025, 15:08
  • Umlaute & Esszett - ecm, 09.06.2025, 15:59