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Appendix B Encodings
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The following sections define various encodings as PostScript encoding
vectors.  These files can be installed in the Dvips header directory and
then used in `psfonts.map' to change font encodings of downloadable or
builtin fonts (Note: psfonts.map.map.).

   You can also specify these `.enc' files to Afm2tfm when building a
font (Note: Changing font encodings.).

   For a discussion of TeX font encodings in general, and defining new
ones for use with `fontinst' in particular, see
`http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/fontinst/doc/encspecs'.

   A tutorial on character code issues in general is available at
`http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html'.

   Naming specific characters is a tangled and difficult area.  Here are
some links to character tables for Unicode, Adobe, and WGL4, for your
researching pleasure (thanks to Boguslaw Jackowski for the list):

   * `http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt'

   * `http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/NamesList.txt'

   * `http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/type/corporateuse-old.txt'

   * `http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/type/aglfn13.txt'

   * `http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/type/unicodegn.jsp'

   * `http://www.microsoft.com/OpenType/otspec/WGL4.htm'

6w

CP-1251 (Cyrillic).

8a

Adobe standard.

8r

TeX base.

dvips

Dvips.

ec

EC (aka COrk, TeX Latin 1, tex256).

groff

8g.

t5

Vietnamese, from vntex.

qx

QX, from GUST.

texmext

TeX math extension.

texmsym

TeX math symbol.

texmital

TeX math italic.

texnansi

From Y&Y.

texnansx

From Y&Y.

xl2

OT1 + ISO Latin 2 (extended).

xt2

Typewriter version of xl2.