Morris Inouye wrote:
On 8/15/06, *A-NO-NE Music* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
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.)
Make sure to notify the good folks at tech support, though. That way
they can bump this request up from "very popular" to "extremely popular"
(or whatever they call the level that actually gets action).
These days, since you've been away for a while, you have to go to the
web-site and click on the support link to get to a 5-page form which
asks enough information to fit on a single screen. The old e-mail
tech-support doesn't work anymore.
And be sure to tell them you've been working with Sibelius since they
have unicode encoding!
--
David H. Bailey
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