On 09/12/2002 02:00:05 AM "William Overington" wrote: >Certainly, on a Windows 95 machine if someone has Word 97 installed, then >Word 97 can be used to set the Esperanto text before using a Print Screen >operation, though Word 97 is a premium package not available to people using >minimum systems and possibly not available to people using an open access PC >in a public library.
On a Win95 machine running Word 97, one can edit Esperanto text encoded in Unicode. Keyman 5 can be used to create a Unicode-capable input method that will work with Word 97 even on Win95. If Word 97 is too expensive, there are lower-cost text editors available that can also do this. >could produce >elegant graphics using the Paint program. It isn't very often that Paint is associated with elegant graphics. :-) >Unicode is very important, yet I feel that it is also very important that >facilities are provided for people using the many older machines which are >still in use around the world. Do we have reliable info on how many older systems are in use around the world, or are we just assuming? >In using the Microsoft Paint program using the text tool I have found that >some fonts such as Arial, Code2000 and Times New Roman offer various >versions of the font with names such as Baltic within parentheses after the >name of the font, which can be used using Alt ddd sequences and Alt 0ddd >sequences, where ddd is a base 10 integer less than or equal to 255, to >produce various sets of characters. How please does this mechanism work? Using Unicode and industry-standard codepages. There is a single Unicode-conformant font in each case. >So, I am wondering if the new code page could be added into some of those >fonts I assure you, it's not going to happen. No company that needs to create profit wants to enter the black hole of supporting every end-user-defined codepage (which is what this is) that comes along. They're making big investments to be free (as much as possible) of even their own codepages. - Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Constable Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA Tel: +1 972 708 7485 E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
