The Cork (also known as T1 or EC) encoding is a character encoding used for encoding

glyph A glyph () is any kind of purposeful mark. In typography, a glyph is "the specific shape, design, or representation of a character". It is a particular graphical representation, in a particular typeface, of an element of written language. A g ...

s in

font In metal typesetting, a font is a particular size, weight and style of a typeface. Each font is a matched set of type, with a piece (a "sort") for each glyph. A typeface consists of a range of such fonts that shared an overall design. In mod ...

s. It is named after the city of Cork in Ireland, where during a TeX Users Group (TUG) conference in 1990 a new encoding was introduced for LaTeX. It contains 256 characters supporting most west and east-European languages with the Latin alphabet.

Details

In 8-bit TeX engines the font encoding has to match the encoding of hyphenation patterns where this encoding is most commonly used. In LaTeX one can switch to this encoding with

\usepackage 1/code>, while in  ConTeXt MkII this is the default encoding already. In modern engines such as  XeTeX and  LuaTeX Unicode is fully supported and the 8-bit font encodings are obsolete.

 Character set




  Notes 

* Hexadecimal values under the characters in the table are the Unicode character codes.
* The first 12 characters are often used as  combining characters.


  Supported languages 

The encoding supports most European languages written in Latin alphabet. Notable exceptions are:
* Esperanto 





Esperanto ( or ) is the world's most widely spoken  constructed  international auxiliary language. Created by the Warsaw-based  ophthalmologist L. L. Zamenhof in 1887, it was intended to be a universal second language for international communi ...
 (using IL3)
*  Latvian language and  Lithuanian language (using L7X)
*  Welsh language
Languages with slightly suboptimal support include:
*  Galician language,  Portuguese language and  Spanish language – due to the lack of characters  ª and  º, which are not superscript versions of lowercase "a" and "o" (superscripts are thinner) and they are often underlined
* Croatian language 






Croatian (; ' )  is the standardized variety of the Serbo-Croatian  pluricentric language used by Croats, principally in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serbian province of Vojvodina, and other neighboring countries. It is the  official  ...
, Bosnian language 




Bosnian (;  / , ) is the standardized variety of the Serbo-Croatian  pluricentric language mainly used by ethnic Bosniaks. Bosnian is one of three such varieties considered official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina, along with  Croatian and  ...
,  Serbian language – due to the shared use of the slot for  Đ
*  Turkish language – due to  dotless i having different uppercase and lowercase combinations than in other languages


 References



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