From: Andrew C. West (andrewcwest@alumni.princeton.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 05 2005 - 07:55:40 CST
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 14:01:20 +0100, "Raymond Mercier" wrote:
>
> Andrew C. West writes
> > That should be no suprise. In general, under Windows NT4/2K/XP, Unicode
> > rendering works better in plain text apps such as Notepad than in clever
> > apps
> > such as Word. Notepad doesn't try to be clever ... it just sends the text
> > you
> > give it to Uniscribe for processing and rendering; Word tries to be
> > clever, and
> > in the end usually fails miserably.
>
> Fine, although one of the 'clever' things in Word is that at least there I
> can enter any character I want, but in Notepad how does one enter M+macron ?
As others will no doubt tell you, there are many ways of entering macron+m in
Notepad; but if I were working with a language that uses m/n plus macron, then I
would use Microsoft's Keyboard Layout Creator to create a special keyboard
layout to support the orthography, and map m-macron, M-macron, n-macron and
N-macron to AltGr-M, Shift-AltGr-M, AltGr-N and Shift-AltGr-N respectively. Then
I could easily enter the characters in Word or Notepad or almost any Windows
application.
Andrew
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