the Unicode character set contains thousands of symbols which include
your straightahead alphanumeric characters in almost all the world
languages, as well as a number of mathematical, scientific, music,
etc etc symbols.
You can generate them in either Notepad or Wordpad by:
turning on numlock, and holding down alt and entering on the numpad
the decimal value of the character of your choice from the unicode
character set.
for example, in a blank wordpad document, try, alt followed by numpad
945 and you should get Greek small letter alpha.
Try some random values and see what you come up with.
Hope that helps.
Best, Matt
At 23:52 26/01/2014, you wrote:
Hi,
What are"unicode characters"? What is their function?
Thanks
Neville.
On 27/01/14 9:44 AM, MJ Williams wrote:
Fellows and fellowesses,
I use the Adobe reader software for opening and reading PDFs, especially
if the document contains unicode characters. Window-Eyes with DECTalk
successfully renders such characters in PDFs; I'm not sure about other
speech synths, but I digress. The problem I don't mind admitting to you
is that I find the Adobe software slow and unstable. So, I am looking
for an alternative PDF reader which works as well as the Adobe reader in
rendering those unicode symbols, but minus the slowness and
instability. Incidentally, OCR packages such as Kurzweil and Openbook
do not recognise unicode text.
So, any ideas, suggestions?
Sincerely, Matthew
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