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In alt.ascii-art, MiKe�  <p�cheur@la.toile> wrote:
> > Elijah
> > won't go into the "charset" vs "character sets" vs "font", etc, thing here
> Great thing about the Mac - I can add key features that allow me to
> access all character values up to "FFh" (255d) and with either the 

Nothing special about a Mac there. But why limit yourself to one-byte
character systems? UCS-4 should have enough space for any glyphs you
can imagine in the unused spaces, while leaving all the glyphs people
have ever used untouched. 

> Apple� resource editor or a font editing program I can design my own
> "picture" fonts.  With ResEd I can put them into my system file. That
> allows me to print a better bold, italic, etc. type version than the
> printing software will print.

Why use ResEdit? Make the font, and install it as you would any other
font. Or did you mean ResEdit to make the font? I thought it could
only do bitmap fonts, and those won't print nice.

> Of course, 0 - 31 and 127 are as you noted - "reserved for system use".
> Designing your own keyboard layout also allows easy encryption. The
> "key" is the altered keyboard layout.

I've remapped the keyboard on other OSs besides Macs. 

ObAscii:

        `MMMMMMMMb                     dMMP
          "MMMMMMMM.                 dMMM
           `MMMMMMMMb               dMMP
             `MMMMMMMM.           dMM'
              `MMMMMMMMb         MMM'
                TMMMMMMMM.     dMMP
                 `MMMMMMMMb   MMM
                   "MMMMMMP MMM'
                    `MMMM',MMM
                    ,dMM',MMMMM
                   dMMP dMMMMMMMb
                 .MMM    TMMMMMMMM.
               .MMM'      `MMMMMMMMb
              dMM'          `MMMMMMMM.
            ,dMM'            `EMMMMMMMb
           dMM'                TMMMMMMMM
          MMM                   `BMMMMMMMb
         """                      """""""""

Elijah
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