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Fonts & Encodings (Paperback)

by Yannis Haralambous (Author)

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Paperback: 1037 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; illustrated edition edition (26 Sep 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0596102429
ISBN-13: 978-0596102425
Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 17.6 x 5.4 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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Dan McKinnon, October 2007
this puts the U in Unicode and is a must read for anyone that wants to learn more about this exciting topic

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Overall, I rate this an exceptional achievement.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Everything you ever wanted to know, 20 Nov 2007

By	D. J. Mccann (London) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is surely the definitive work on the topic, and manages to be readable as well.

The chapters cover: Before Unicode; Introduction to Unicode; Properties of characters; Normalisation, Bidirectionality, and East Asian characters; Using Unicode; Font management; TEX; Web pages; History of typefaces; Creating fonts; Rasterisation; Advanced typography. The appendixes cover Font formats, TrueType instructing, Bezier curves.

The author is a Macintosh user and so, refreshingly, gives equal coverage to OS-X, Linux, and Windows. I can't vouch for the Windows material, but the Linux information is sound, if a little dated in places.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent reference book on fonts, 29 Jan 2008

By	Troy Korjuslommi - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

It's great to see such a thorough book on the subject.

The coverage of Unicode is good and written in plain English.
The book covers history and technical implementation details, with many examples
of usage. There is also coverage of East Asian scripts (CJK).

I liked finding the sections on modifying keyboard layouts and managing
fonts on Mac OS 9, Mac OSX, Windows XP, and X Windows (including GNU/Linux).
The information on X11 is not complete, but still very good.
Oddly, the author uses the term "X Window," which should in my opinion be X, X11,
X Window System or X Windows. This is probably due to pressure not to use the word
"Windows," although "X Windows" is the common term.

The sections on TeX, SVG and Postscript are invaluable, and there is even info
for creating and publishing your own custom fonts to browsers.

Overall, I would say that the book is an invaluable reference for anyone who deals
with fonts, typography and i18n issues.

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