We had got developed a special font which covers most of the
Indic languages and we have been using that since 1993 with
MS-Word under the windows environment.
When we started using the USMARC format in 1996 we key-in
the ANSEL codes into our data. This data goes through a
convert program, which converts all the non-spacing graphic
(diacritic) characters from ANSEL to our specific font loaded
on Windows environment. This mechanism is working fine for
us.
Hope this information is useful.
Thanking you,
Kayarat Baby
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Wes Brent wrote:
>
> A windows font to display USMARC diacritics??
>
> ASCII as used in USMARC records has been extended to an 8-bit code,
> thus the basic USMARC code set is 8-bit. USMARC also uses the Extended
> Latin Alphabet Coded Character Set for Bibliographic Use (ANSEL),
> which caters for several of the diacritic characters, and this is
> commonly used in records with Latin script data content.
>
> For the display of diacritics, USMARC uses a technique known as
> nonspacing graphic characters. Nonspacing graphic characters are
> always used in conjunction with other spacing graphic characters. More
> than one nonspacing graphic character may be associated with one
> spacing graphic character. For example, using the USMARC ANSEL coding,
> the code for "a umlaut" would be HEX 62 (the lowercase a) followed by
> HEX E8 (ANSEL umlaut). In displaying, the umlaut should be directly
> over the "a".
>
> Now to the point of my query, does any one out there in USMARC-L land
> know of a Windows based font which can handle the ANSEL character set,
> and thus successfully display diacritics if presented in this format??
> It would need to successfully be able to display these nonspacing
> graphics over the top of spacing characters. The default Windows font
> seem to follow the PC-437 ASCII standard, and the 8-bit ASCII has a
> different character set to ANSEL.
>
> Any help or guiding knowledge would be much appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wes Brent
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