[softwarelist] Re: Any Font thoughts please?
- From: Dave Symes <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:30:49 +0000 (GMT)
In article <ae413ede50.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Martin Wuerthner <public@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Not quite. As if by magic the Latin-1 character that happens to be at
> the same codepoint is inserted at the cursor, unless you have a
> program that allows you to use Latin-3 encoding. I am not aware of any
> RISC OS word processor offering an encoding switch.
> You can of course switch the global system encoding to Latin-3 (by
> typing *Alphabet Latin3 before loading your word processor). Then, you
> will notice that XChars immediately displays the Latin3 characters and
> you can indeed use all Latin-3 characters from the ROM fonts in your
> word processor. However, while using Latin-3, all your existing
> documents, which are based on Latin-1 may be displayed incorrectly if
> they use any of the changed codepoints, so this is just a temporary
> emergency workaround, not really suitable for serious work.
> RISC OS word processors should really have offered an encoding option
> ever since that feature was added (in RISC OS 3.1!), at least a
> document-wide setting, or, better, a property that could be applied to
> characters. Then, you could mix encodings in one document.
> Of course, nowadays, everything should really be Unicode, which makes
> all that faffing about with encodings obsolete.
> Martin
Thanks for that bit 'O info Martin, I think that will do for what she
wants.
Fay wants to create the Esperanto document, Print it out, and that's it.
So I can create two Obey files for her Pinboard, one that sets Alphabet to
Latin3 while the second will set it back after printing to Latin1.
Dave
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