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## Appendix B Encodings

The following sections define various encodings as PostScript encoding vectors. These files can be installed in the Dvips header directory and then used in `psfonts.map` to change font encodings of downloadable or builtin fonts (see psfonts.map).

You can also specify these `.enc` files to Afm2tfm when building a font (see Changing font encodings).

For a discussion of TeX font encodings in general, and defining new ones for use with `fontinst` in particular, see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/fontinst/doc/encspecs.

A tutorial on character code issues in general is available at http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html.

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):

- http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt
- http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/NamesList.txt
- http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/type/corporateuse-old.txt
- http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/type/aglfn13.txt
- http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/type/unicodegn.jsp
- http://www.microsoft.com/OpenType/otspec/WGL4.htm