Once again you make sense. I guess I would have to draft up replies using appropriate fonts and symbols and attach them to emails, say like in a pdf file or similar cross platform formats. It can be a problem though for these symbols may not mean much to us yet they can change meanings for others. We are not yet able to establish and utilize an Auxilliary and Universal Language and we badly need it..Course as usual most Americans want it to be their brand of English and in many ways English is becoming the universal language, at least in science it seems to be.
thanks for the help, doug
On Oct 24, 2004, at 11:47 AM, chris wrote:
Yes, and I knew this before and forgot how I did it. I knew that to put an accent over an a or an i for the Persian language one had to do Option E and then depress the letter a or i but I do not know how to put a dot under the t d z for Arabic. I opened the Keyboard Viewer and also put a check mark on Arabic language but there is no such symbol as a dot under the t z or d. It seems that no matter what language you choose the Keyboard Viewer when depressing Option or Shift will only allow certain diacritical marks but not those for all languages like Arabic. There just has to be a way to put a dot under Arabic letters because I have seen this in print.
The actual marks available are dependant on the font being used. So you would have to find a font that offered arabic marks.
However, since the font is not carried with the email, just the ascii codes that corrispond to the particular key combination you used, those marks will not appear on your recipient's computer unless they too are using the same arabic font for their email.
So basically, because you can't save font into in an email, I wouldn't
spend too much more time worrying about how to type exactly right in an
email, because if you succeed, only you will see your success. And worse,
the recipient will now have other potentially confusing symbols stuck
into their email, they they are probably better off just getting a t
without a dot then getting a t preceeded with some other character (which
is what will appear on their computer)
-chris <http://www.mythtech.net>
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