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
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Peter Constable
Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International
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