<snip> 2008/1/7, Jim Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > M Henri Day wrote: > > > 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.... > > I have retested downloading and installing and using the Quick Unicode > Input utility. > > I copied the utility from the website to my desktop. When clicking the > utility on the desktop I received the error message you mentioned. > Accordingly I write-clicked the install program instead and selected > "Run as administrator" and the program installed properly. > > I find it now works better under Vista than I remember. Indeed the only > problem I noticed was that when using the utility in hex mode, one > cannot use Numeric Keypad "." for hex character "F". One must instead > use the "F" key. I recall that when trying before one could not also not > use the "Enter" key for "E", but that works fine now. > > One limitation in both XP and Vista is that one can only Quick Unicode > Input for characters in the base plane, that is characters below and > including 65,535 decimal or FFFF hex. Attempting to use higher > characters produces strange results, and tends to crash OpenOffice.org. > > Jim Allan
Thanks, Jim, for the tip ! I have now been able to install Quick Unicode Input on my Vista Business setup and can use «Alt + 0[decimal code]» to input Unicode glyphs on, e g, Wordpad and OOo 2.3. However, I have *not* been able to input glyphs using the respective hexadecimal codes, which you seem to be able to do. What are you doing that I'm not ?... Henri
