A fontmap defines a relation from one encoding to another for each character in the initial font. In our case, the characters come from non-unicode-encodings and should be translated to unicode. Here ...

If you have viewed a Web page containing strange characters you did not understand, you may have seen Unicode characters. Unicode consists of a character set that covers most languages in the world.

On a Windows computer, the system locale determines what language the text in programs that do not support Unicode is displayed in. The language that non-Unicode applications display text in is ...

Most readers will have at least some passing familiarity with the terms ‘Unicode’ and ‘UTF-8’, but what is really behind them? At their core they refer to character encoding schemes ...