Unicode characters on Qspice Schematics

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In other, past, work, I used UNICODE for CAD so I could render all Asian languages, but it turned out they didn’t really care. In fact, UNICODE was generally poorly received. For example, Helmut really didn’t like it all all.

So I wanted to stick to ASCII, or at least eight bit clean ASCII. I used Windows-1252(Windows-1252 - Wikipedia) which did everything I needed:

  1. Lower case Greek Mu for micro
  2. Enough extra letters for all the foreseeable new SPICE devices I would likely write.
  3. Allowed western European languages to look normal with the extended vowels as they do expect.
  4. Simplifies writing new parsers for manipulating netlists, CAD, and waveform header files by 3rd parties.

–Mike