generating windows font problem

[Wally]

I purchased TypeTool to recreate an old Mac System 9 Font suitcase(Chemistry) I used for many educational software programs I wrote years ago.

I created my special characters(all in the ACSII range of 127 to 255) and the now modern True Type font displays/works flawlesslessly on my Macintosh.  However, I can't get the windows version of the font  to display the characters properly.  The ASCII values of the windows font version I generated match the Mac version ASCII value, but the characters don't display in the program scripts as on the Mac.  I know the Windows ASCII values are correct because I use a Windows program "Font Viewer"  to examine fonts.  Also, I can enter the special characters in Windows with the keyboard by using the alt key plus the number zero and the ASCII number of the special characters.

The program I use to program is Revolution and it translates text in fields and scripts to iso 8859-1 when you transfer files from platform to platform.

I know I'm not generating the Windows version correctly but the docs are confusing(to me) so any steps I should take are greatly appreciated.  I'm gettin' close....

[Wally]

Ok, maybe what I'm trying to do is not possible.  Is it possible to make a font whose ASCII characters 1-255 are the same in Windows and a Macintosh AND whose characters are the same in iso 8859-1?

In other words, can a file containing characters in the ASCII range 1-255 that is created on a Mac, be opened in Windows, then translated automatically(by my program) into iso 8859-1, and then displayed the same as on the Mac?

Does my question even make sense?

[Alex Petrov]

Ok, maybe what I'm trying to do is not possible.

Everything is possible if you have enough money.

In other words, can a file containing characters in the ASCII range 1-255 that is created on a Mac, be opened in Windows, then translated automatically(by my program) into iso 8859-1, and then displayed the same as on the Mac?

Surely yes if you are talking about plain text files. If you can write a program for text conversion you can create your fonts as you wish, with any encoding.

[Der FontMeister]

In the old days I made a Character Crossover Chart which can help you understand this issue for any product. Go to http://www.fontlab.us/downloads/documents/FG4Technotes.pdf and download it and look for tech note 13433.

Of course, there are exceptions, such as Adobe symbol characters, etc.

Jimmy G.