2008/1/25, Jim Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > M Henri Day wrote:
<snip> >> You can create macros for special keys, but the best answer is to set > >> alternate keyboards in your operating system (for example, Microsoft > >> provides a virtual Greek keyboard) and switch between them and/or use a > >> keyboard editor to create alternate keyboards to your desire. Such > >> keyboards will then work in almost every application. The Windows > >> keyboard editor is available free at > >> http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx . You may also find > >> http://www.cardbox.com/quick.htm provides a free, useful utility called > >> Quick Unicode Input. This last does not work properly in Vista. > > > <snip> > > > >> Jim Allan > > > Jim, as you yourself pointed out to me a couple of weeks ago, the Quick > > Unicode Input utility *does* indeed work in Vista, if one remembers to > open > > it by right-clicking the desktop icon and selecting to run the programme > as > > an adminstrator. When this has been done, one can use «Alt + 0[decimal > code] > > (on the numerical keys with «Num Lock» on)», or alternatively, «Alt + , > (on > > the Num pad) [hexadecimal code] » to input Unicode glyphs into, e g, > Wordpad > > and OOo 2.3. To take my favourite example, the Chinese glyph «倀» (read > > chāng, i e, the ghost of person eaten by a tiger) can be entered either > by > > typing «Alt + 020480» or «Alt + ,5000». I'm writing this on my Vista > setup, > > and it works perfectly for me.... > > > > Henri > > It stopped working well for me. > > I will try again tonight. > > Your description suggests that you may be reinstalling this program > every time, which may be the reasonable work-around for Vista. > > Jim Allan Jim, I have to right-click the Quick Unicode Utility icon and select «Run as adminstrator» everytime I reboot into Vista in order for the programme to function, but I don't need to go through any installation process. By the way, in your original instructions, you indicated that a dot «.» must be pressed on the Num Pad before entering the hexadecimal code of the glyph to be entered, but on my Num Pad the key in question (the second in the bottom row) is marked as a comma «,». I don't know if this is a peculiarity of my Norwegian 105-key (Logitech) board, or whether this is the case for you as well.... Henri
