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How are character encodings related to fonts?

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Mar 15, 20265465 views
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I mean, does a font have to support every character encoding? Or does a character encoding have to support every font? What do Unicode fonts mean? are they fonts that support only Unicode, and they dont support, say, windows-1252?

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To start with basics, everything is based on US-ASCII which is an 7 bit code with 128 code points in the set, numbered hex 00 through 7F or decimal 0-127. This is mapped to control codes, English alphanumeric, and basic punctuation characters Adding…

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