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Postings from January 2004
Austin Hastings wrote: >>>From: Rod Adams [mailto:rod@rodadams.net] >>> >>>Question in all this: What does one do when they have to _debug_ some >>>code that was written with these lovely Unicode ops, all while stuck in >>>an ASCII world? >>> >>> >That's why I suggested a standard script for Unicode2Ascii be shipped with the distro. > > Good Idea, which would also beg an ASCII2Unicode script to reverse the process. >>>Also, isn't it a pain to type all these characters when they are not on >>>your keyboard? As a predominately Win2k/XP user in the US, I see all >>>these glyphs just fine, but having to remember Alt+0171 for a « >>> >>> >>is going >> >> >>>to get old fast... I much sooner go ahead and write E<raquo> >>> >>> >>and be done >> >> >>>with it. >>> >>>Thoughts? >>> >>> >>This has been discussed a bunch of times, but for Windows users >>the very best thing in the US is to change your Start > Settings >> >> >>>Control Panel > Keyboard > Input Locales so that you have the >>> >>> >>option of switching over to a "United States-International" IME. >> >>Once you've got that available (I used the Left-Alt+Shift hotkey) >>you can make a map of the keys. The only significant drawback is >>the behavior of the quote character, since it is used to encode >>accent marks. It takes getting used to the quote+space behavior, >>or defining a macro key (hint, hint). >> >> >(Links Snipped) > > Thanks for the pointers. I've now set up Win2k so I can easily switch between US and United States International. Works nicely. Now I have to go beat up the Thunderbird guys for trapping the keyboard directly and not allowing me to type the chars here. Thanks Again -- RodThread Previous