Thanks. I didn't realize accents were available. That clarifies it a bit
for me.
Jamie
"Ben Darnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> In article <9842@palm-dev-forum>, Jamie Macleod wrote:
> >
> >Is it possible to program an app using french fonts? Is there a french
font
> >available already? How would you handle accents in fonts for languages
such
> >as french and greek?
>
> You're mixing apples and oranges here. There are no "french fonts";
> French uses the same alphabet as the rest of the western world, with
> accented characters (which are not unique to French). The standard
> fonts on Palm devices already contain symbols for accented characters.
> You can put strings containing accented characters in your program and
> they will display normally (learning how to type accented characters in
> your development environment is left as an exercise for the reader).
> You can also write accented characters on the Palm - see the
> documentation that comes with the device for details.
>
> Greek, on the other hand, does use a different alphabet, for which there
> are no characters in the standard Palm fonts. There may be 3rd-party
> add-ons for Greek characters, but not in the standard OS.
>
> -Ben
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