The PostScript Latin 1 Encoding (often spelled ISOLatin1Encoding) is one of the character sets (or encoding vectors) used by
Adobe Systems'
PostScript (PS) since 1984 (1982). In 1995,
IBM assigned code page 1277 (
CCSID
A CCSID (coded character set identifier) is a 16-bit number that represents a particular encoding of a specific code page. For example, Unicode is a code page that has several encoding (so called "transformation") forms, like UTF-8, UTF-16 and U ...
1277) to this character set.
It is a superset of
ISO 8859-1.
Code page layout
References
* (NB. This book is informally called "red book" due to its red cover.)
* (NB. This edition also contains a description of
Display PostScript
Display PostScript (or DPS) is a 2D graphics engine system for computers which uses the PostScript (PS) imaging model and language (originally developed for computer printing) to generate on-screen graphics. To the basic PS system, DPS adds a num ...
, which is no longer discussed in the third edition.)
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Character sets