M Henri Day wrote:
2008/1/4, Harold Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On 04/01/2008 17:18, M Henri Day wrote:
<snip>
Harold, what bug ? After downloading the tool, I don't encounter any
difficulty typing in glyphs directly from my keyboard using the formula
mentioned above, i e, «Alt + 0[*decimal* code for the desired glyph].
Thus,
for the tick «✓» which is glyph #10003, I hold down the «Alt» key and
type
«010003» on the number pad with «Num Lock» on ; to enter 倀(chāng, the
ghost
of a man eaten by a tiger), which is #20480, I hold down the «Alt» key
and
type «020480». I ddid this on a 32-bit Windows XP Home setup. Doesn't
this
procedure work for you ?...
Henri
PS : A list of the Unicode glyphs can be found here :
http://unicode.coeurlumiere.com/
I meant the bug Jim Allen reported concerning OpenOffice's not allowing
entry of Unicode via the standard Windows interface; to quote from *his*
e-mail (today, 15:29 UK time):
=== begin quote ===
As to entering such characters from the keyboard, OpenOffice.org still
does not support the standard way of entering Unicode characters in
Windows using the Alt key and the numeric keypad. I reported this in
February 2006 as issue 61540, but nothing has yet been done about it.
See http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=61540 .
=== end quote ===
The tool seems to work perfectly.
--
Harold Fuchs
London, England
But Harold, isn't that we just did - enter «Unicode via the standard Windows
interface». My little bear brain must be missing something here....
You yourself indicated that when you tried to enter characters over hex
255 into OpenOffice.org without any additional utility using the Alt
method, that did not work properly.
This seems to be a bug to me, and was accepted as a bug by
OpenOffice.org. They just haven’t fixed it yet.
Using the Quick Unicode Input utility is a way around this bug. But one
shouldn’t need to have a way around the bug. OpenOffice.org ought to
allow one to enter these characters using the Alt-Numpad method without
resorting to outside software, as many other programs for Windows do.
Just accept two bytes from the Alt Numpad routine instead of one.
You are now entering the character using the Quick Unicode Input
interface, not the standard Windows interface, though Quick Unicode
Input doesn’t make it obvious.
As I mentioned, the Quick Unicode Input utility doesn’t work properly
under Windows Vista, so the problem still exists for OpenOffice.org on
Vista machines and on Windows XP machines that don’t have Quick Unicode
Input installed.
Jim Allan
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