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<h2 class="appendix">Appendix B Encodings</h2>

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<p>The following sections define various encodings as PostScript encoding
vectors.  These files can be installed in the Dvips header directory and
then used in <samp>psfonts.map</samp> to change font encodings of downloadable
or builtin fonts (see <a href="http://tug.org/texinfohtml/dvips.html#psfonts_002emap">psfonts.map</a> in <cite>Dvips</cite>).
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<p>You can also specify these <samp>.enc</samp> files to Afm2tfm when building a
font (see <a href="http://tug.org/texinfohtml/dvips.html#Changing-font-encodings">Changing font encodings</a> in <cite>Dvips</cite>).
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<p>For a discussion of TeX font encodings in general, and defining new
ones for use with <code>fontinst</code> in particular, see
<a href="http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/fontinst/doc/encspecs">http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/fontinst/doc/encspecs</a>.
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<p>A tutorial on character code issues in general is available at
<a href="http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html">http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html</a>.
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<p>Naming specific characters is a tangled and difficult area.  Here are
some links to character tables for Unicode, Adobe, and WGL4, for your
researching pleasure (thanks to Boguslaw Jackowski for the list):
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<li> <a href="http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt">http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt</a>
</li><li> <a href="http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/NamesList.txt">http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/NamesList.txt</a>
</li><li> <a href="http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/type/corporateuse-old.txt">http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/type/corporateuse-old.txt</a>
</li><li> <a href="http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/type/aglfn13.txt">http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/type/aglfn13.txt</a>
</li><li> <a href="http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/type/unicodegn.jsp">http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/type/unicodegn.jsp</a>
</li><li> <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/OpenType/otspec/WGL4.htm">http://www.microsoft.com/OpenType/otspec/WGL4.htm</a>
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