cacha?a and OFF TOPIC

Grant Barrett gbarrett at AMERICANDIALECT.ORG
Wed Mar 8 01:13:05 UTC 2000


On Tuesday, March 7, 2000, Kathleen Miller <millerk at NYTIMES.COM> wrote:
>Sorry - it came out fine on my end.
>Cacha (c cedilla) a
>and
>caipir (i acute) ssima

Mark, you gotta get your tech people to get you off Lotus Notes. Even the free email
programs usually handle special characters well. Or see if you can adjust the
default character reading and sending to something other than US-ASCII.

A vaguely related point: those of you who are using Mac OS 9 may not know that
included on the installer CD are all of Apple's formerly expensive language kits, only now
free. They are a separate install from the system itself. Included are Japanese,
simplified and traditional Chinese, Hebrew, Arabic, Korean, Devanagari, Gurmukhi,
Gujarati, Cyrillic keyboards and fonts, and numerous keyboards for most other major world
languages. Unicode support is also implemented.

The upshot of this is that if your word processor or browser supports them, you can
write or browse the web without everything looking like garbage: pages in Japanese!
Screen shots of Israeli newspapers! Yahoo in Big 5!

Grant



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