On 8/15/06, A-NO-NE Music <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I agree with you--acquiring a Unicode (UTF8-16) *font* is trivial--there are many available to download if you don't have one for the alphabet/syllabary you want to use. It is the *encoding* (freeing us from the limitations of using only one or a few written languages) that gives us the ability to input lyrics in German, Polish, Japanese, Russian, Greek,etc.--all in the same work.
Tyler Turner / 2006/08/15 / 07:09 AM wrote:
>Calling unicode a "popular" feature request is sort of
>a relative statement. Is it requested by people? Yes.
>Is it requested as much as any of the major features
>implemented in Finale over the past few years? Not by
>a long shot.
That's not the point, tho. All the OSes process data in UTF-8/16 now.
Even Win2K/XP processes in Unicode even though their display is still MS
propriety code page.
I agree with you--acquiring a Unicode (UTF8-16) *font* is trivial--there are many available to download if you don't have one for the alphabet/syllabary you want to use. It is the *encoding* (freeing us from the limitations of using only one or a few written languages) that gives us the ability to input lyrics in German, Polish, Japanese, Russian, Greek,etc.--all in the same work.
It's not a question of just font but more in data processing. Finale
has to be Unicode native in order to run natively on current OSes.
I have switched from Finale to Sibelius during the past year, and won't look back until Finale switches to Unicode *encoding*. (Well, that is an obvious lie, since--as you can see--I resubscribed to this mailing list when I got my upgrade notice in the mail. ... So I *am* looking over my shoulder--so to speak--just to make sure I don't miss any earth shattering advances in Finale.)
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Morris Inouye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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