Archive for February 6th, 2007
Characters, Glyphs and Fonts
Computers were originally designed to work with a limited set of characters primarily based on Roman script. In order to distinguish each character from the other for the purpose of storage and communication with keyboard and printer etc, each character was assigned a unique number out of the 256 possible combination within 8 bits. To ensure that data stored on one computer doesnot loose its content when transferred to another type of computer (there were many… BBC Micro, Apple, Atari, Commadore, mainframes…) a standard was agreed upon known as ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)… Thereafter we know that ASCII codes 65,66,67… stands for A,B,C…
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