heading2("Standard Single-Byte Font Encodings")
disc("""
This section shows you the glyphs available in the common encodings.
""")
disc("""The code chart below shows the characters in the $WinAnsiEncoding$.
This is the standard encoding on Windows and many Unix systems in America
and Western Europe. It is also knows as Code Page 1252, and is practically
identical to ISO-Latin-1 (it contains one or two extra characters). This
is the default encoding used by the Reportlab PDF Library. It was generated from
a standard routine in $reportlab/lib$, $codecharts.py$,
which can be used to display the contents of fonts. The index numbers
along the edges are in hex.""")
cht1 = SingleByteEncodingChart(encodingName='WinAnsiEncoding',
charsPerRow=32,
boxSize=12)
illust(lambda canv: cht1.drawOn(canv, 0, 0), "WinAnsi Encoding", cht1.width,
cht1.height)
disc("""The code chart below shows the characters in the $MacRomanEncoding$.
as it sounds, this is the standard encoding on Macintosh computers in
America and Western Europe. As usual with non-unicode encodings, the first
128 code points (top 4 rows in this case) are the ASCII standard and agree
with the WinAnsi code chart above; but the bottom 4 rows differ.""")
cht2 = SingleByteEncodingChart(encodingName='MacRomanEncoding',
charsPerRow=32,
boxSize=12)
illust(lambda canv: cht2.drawOn(canv, 0, 0), "MacRoman Encoding", cht2.width,
cht2.height)
heading2("Standard Single-Byte Font Encodings")
disc("""
This section shows you the glyphs available in the common encodings.
""")
disc("""The code chart below shows the characters in the $WinAnsiEncoding$.
This is the standard encoding on Windows and many Unix systems in America
and Western Europe. It is also knows as Code Page 1252, and is practically
identical to ISO-Latin-1 (it contains one or two extra characters). This
is the default encoding used by the Reportlab PDF Library. It was generated from
a standard routine in $reportlab/lib$, $codecharts.py$,
which can be used to display the contents of fonts. The index numbers
along the edges are in hex.""")
cht1 = SingleByteEncodingChart(encodingName='WinAnsiEncoding',charsPerRow=32, boxSize=12)
illust(lambda canv: cht1.drawOn(canv, 0, 0), "WinAnsi Encoding", cht1.width, cht1.height)
disc("""The code chart below shows the characters in the $MacRomanEncoding$.
as it sounds, this is the standard encoding on Macintosh computers in
America and Western Europe. As usual with non-unicode encodings, the first
128 code points (top 4 rows in this case) are the ASCII standard and agree
with the WinAnsi code chart above; but the bottom 4 rows differ.""")
cht2 = SingleByteEncodingChart(encodingName='MacRomanEncoding',charsPerRow=32, boxSize=12)
illust(lambda canv: cht2.drawOn(canv, 0, 0), "MacRoman Encoding", cht2.width, cht2.height)
disc("""These two encodings are available for the standard fonts (Helvetica,
Times-Roman and Courier and their variants) and will be available for most
commercial fonts including those from Adobe. However, some fonts contain non-
text glyphs and the concept does not really apply. For example, ZapfDingbats
and Symbol can each be treated as having their own encoding.""")