On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:59:01 -0000, Mihai Capotă wrote: > Let's not forget there's a patch from Microsoft that adds support for > ș and ț in Windows XP.
Yes, but only for displaying ș and ț, not for generating ș and ț from keyboard (it is basically a font update, nothing more). Although a good thing, the update is limited to the most used fonts: Arial and Times New Roman (for printed documents), Verdana (for web) and Trebuchet (they said this is for MS Office, but I know that this also solves a titlebar issue when the user selected desktop appearance is Windows XP instead of Windows Classic). Another "problem" is that the font update download *) (not the actual install) requires genuine validation check, which I doubt it will pass on many home users. In my opinion this will affect the reading on web-based forums, but less the e-mail, because most home users appears to be Yahoo mail users **). The standard Yahoo mail interface generates broken encoding declaration anyway (it is fixed to ISO-8859-1) and will ignore the incoming mail encoding declaration anyway (it treates all incoming mail as ISO-8859-1), so most Yahoo mail users will see garbage, regardless the cedila or comma story ***). *) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0ec6f335-c3de-44c5-a13d-a1e7cea5ddea&DisplayLang=en **) merely my own supposition; comments on this may be required ***) this may change if their new beta interface will become widely used, which I doubt Cristi -- Cristian Secară http://www.secarica.ro/ -- Romanian layout with ș and ț in it is not among the options in the GUI https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/108057 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs