[IxDA Discuss] Bringing typography to design – High-ASCII

[David Cortright]

*Hmm, first attempt didn't go through…*

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From: David Cortright <davecort at gmail.com>
Date: Mar 1, 2007 7:34 AM
Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Bringing typography to design – High-ASCII
To: discuss at ixda.org, Adrian Howard <adrianh at quietstars.com>

Yes, I know they aren't base ASCII, Adrian. They are high-ASCII – or extended
ASCII <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_ASCII> – as I claimed in the
subject. And I realize that different OSes interpret ISO-8859-1 differently.
But how many of us are really designing content for plain-text email
messages? HTML entities
<http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp>will support all of
these characters unamiguously across platforms.

So let me restate the main points to the list since apparently I wasn't
clear enough the first time:

   1. Additional characters exist in all of the standard fonts
   2. Designers don't tend to use these characters because they don't
   know about them or because they are difficult to generate using a standard
   keyboard.
   3. A utility like the one I sent out will help you add these
   characters to your toolbox.
   4. If cross-platform is a consideration, be sure to use HTML
entities<http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp>to reference
these characters in the final implementation.

·Dave