2008/1/5, rob clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > M Henri Day wrote: > > 2008/1/4, Jim Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> M Henri Day wrote: > >> > >>> Jim, to me it makes no difference which of the codes one has to enter > - > >> the > >>> decimal or the hex (the 255 limit, by the way, relates to the former) > - > >> so > >>> as far as I am concerned, the Quick Unicode Tool does indeed resolve > the > >>> problem for Windows XP. You are, however, quite right about Vista ; > when > >> I > >>> try to open the «quick100.exe» file on my Vista Business setup, I > >> receive > >>> the following message : > >>> > >>> «Cannot create the file 'quick.exe'. According to Windows the reason > >>> (00000005) is : > >>> > >> You might try installing it as administrator. > >> > >> I know I was able to install it. > >> > >> But when I tried using it, the results were mostly invalid. I can't now > >> remember exactly what was wrong: I think I remember that one thing that > >> was wrong was that some of the numeric input keys didn't work. I > removed > >> the program, installed it again, and the same thing happened. > >> > >> Of course, Windows Vista has been upgraded since then so perhaps you > >> have encountered a new problem. I may try again on my Vista machine > when > >> I get home tonight. > >> > >> Jim Allan > > > > > > Jim, I am (as far as I know) logged in as an administrator on my Vista > > setup, but sometimes, for reasons that I do not pretend to understand > (I'm > > far from a Vista expert), I get messages of the type «Access denied», > even > > though I think I ought to have it. Thus, for example, whenever I boot to > > Vista, I get a message from Secunia's PSI to the effect that the > programme > > can only be run by an Administrator and that I should log with > > administrative privileges and run it again. Go figure ! In any event, if > you > > do succeed in installing and running it on your home machine and it > works, > > I'm sure I'm not the only list member who would find the details of > > interest.... > > > > Henri > > Henri and Jim > > I hope this doesn't just confuse the issue. > > To use special characters on both XP and Visya I would normally use the > character map (>Start >Accessories >System Tools > Character map). I > have found a tick and a cross in the Wingdings font (I believe this is > on all Windows applications) almost at the bottom and I normally copy > and paste from this to any application that needs them. Is this a > satisfactory workround until OOo can be fixed? > > Thanks > > Rob
Rob, this certainly works for the tick. But sometimes it is nice to have access to the full range of Unicode glyphs, which in XP seem to be made available through something so simple as the installation of the Quick Unicode Tool - to my mind an excellent solution, indeed ! I hope it will prove possible to find an equally simple solution in Vista - and if somebody could inform me how this can be done in Ubuntu Gutsy, where the procedure - «Ctrl+Shift+u, hex code of the desired glyph, spacebar» - which obtained in Feisty no longer seems to work, my cup would really run over !... Henri
