Appendix B - Unicode Escape Characters

ScriptX maps Unicode values into the character set of the underlying platform. Most platforms on which the Kaleida Media Player runs do not yet support Unicode. The Macintosh and Windows have their own internal character sets, which are incompatible. ScriptX currently depends on the underlying platform for screen display of fonts. The font, in turn, is responsible for the glyph.

Table B-1 lists selected Unicode characters that can be mapped to the character sets of current Kaleida Media Player platforms. For a complete listing of Unicode characters, see The Unicode Standard, published by Addison-Wesley.

The Unicode character encoding standard is developed by The Unicode Consortium, incorporated as Unicode, Inc. The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit organization whose charter is to maintain and promote the Unicode standard worldwide. Founding members include major companies and institutions involved in international computing.

Although you can specify any valid Unicode character in ScriptX, a character can only be displayed if it can be mapped to the character set of the underlying operating system. The operating system, in turn, must supply a font that renders the appropriate glyph.

Note - Since HTML is unable to recreate most of the special characters in the Unicode character set at this time, we were unable to create a satisfactory table of Unicode characters in HTML format. Use Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the associated PDF file for the ScriptX Language Guide.

This file last updated on 02/16/96 at 09:34:48.

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