Greek Alphabet and Latin Small Letter
Supported Characters
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Version 1.0
Date 12.11.2003
Author / Reviewer Klinger
Comment Initial version
Springer-Verlag, 12.11.2003 16:32
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1 Character Repertoire and Coding at Springer
Why Springer needs a character repertoire and where the characters come from.
Although Springer, as a publisher of STM content, makes use of a wide range of Unicode characters, this content does not require the use of the entire range of possible Unicode characters (96,382 in Unicode 4.0). As a result we have determined the subset of characters that we support. This subset goes far beyond the characters belonging to the standardized ISO entity sets familiar from SGML. The standard Unicode set itself does not contain all the characters that we require.
In our content please code characters according to the Unicode code points. There is one exception to this usage, and in this case we use the Private Use Area. This exception concerns a few characters that have not yet been standardized in Unicode.
Please note: The Private Use Area is a nonstandardized region in Unicode which is kept free for private purposes. The use of Springer’s coding in this area is only applicable for Springer content.
The following list of character codes supported by Springer is arranged as a table with 6 columns (see example below):
Hex 0040
Dec 64
SV Font @
Arial #
Unicode name COMMERCIAL AT
Entity name commat
Column 1: The hexadecimal code point Column 2: The decimal code point Column 3: The glyph in our Springer font (the appearance of the character) Column 4: The glyph in the Arial MS Unicode font or the coding if no glyph is available Column 5: The Unicode name Column 6: The entity name (if there is one)
Please note: If the character itself is shown in the Arial MS Unicode column, then that character can be inserted, for example, via
Version: 1.0 12.11.2003
Electronic Technologies
Supported Characters
2 / 48
Version 1.0
Date 12.11.2003
Author / Reviewer Klinger
Comment Initial version
Springer-Verlag, 12.11.2003 16:32
Supported Characters
3 / 48
1 Character Repertoire and Coding at Springer
Why Springer needs a character repertoire and where the characters come from.
Although Springer, as a publisher of STM content, makes use of a wide range of Unicode characters, this content does not require the use of the entire range of possible Unicode characters (96,382 in Unicode 4.0). As a result we have determined the subset of characters that we support. This subset goes far beyond the characters belonging to the standardized ISO entity sets familiar from SGML. The standard Unicode set itself does not contain all the characters that we require.
In our content please code characters according to the Unicode code points. There is one exception to this usage, and in this case we use the Private Use Area. This exception concerns a few characters that have not yet been standardized in Unicode.
Please note: The Private Use Area is a nonstandardized region in Unicode which is kept free for private purposes. The use of Springer’s coding in this area is only applicable for Springer content.
The following list of character codes supported by Springer is arranged as a table with 6 columns (see example below):
Hex 0040
Dec 64
SV Font @
Arial #
Unicode name COMMERCIAL AT
Entity name commat
Column 1: The hexadecimal code point Column 2: The decimal code point Column 3: The glyph in our Springer font (the appearance of the character) Column 4: The glyph in the Arial MS Unicode font or the coding if no glyph is available Column 5: The Unicode name Column 6: The entity name (if there is one)
Please note: If the character itself is shown in the Arial MS Unicode column, then that character can be inserted, for example, via