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<DIV><SPAN class=130520719-17092004><FONT face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック" color=#0000ff
size=2>This is fairly off-topic, but it seems I'm not the only one on this
list frustrated with this.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=130520719-17092004><FONT face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック" color=#0000ff size=2>I
decided that Rudy's forwarded solution is probably the only recourse for getting
superscripts. What would be nice is to have a keyboard ready to go, though. With
this work-around, the keyboard only "works" in Microsoft
Word.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=130520719-17092004><FONT face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック" color=#0000ff size=2>I
suppose that's only natural, though, since superscripting is a formatting issue.
I went to the Unicode page and they have a FAQ telling people not to request
modified letters. They have a variety of diacritics that have a built-in
backspace so they appear above the letter typed after them.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=130520719-17092004><FONT face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック" color=#0000ff
size=2>That's as far as I have pursued this issue, but this means that it's
impossible to type in Makah in a Weblog or any other of a variety of interfaces
because it requires a superscript "w". Yes, you can add HTML tags in an
HTML-compliant interface, so I guess you can program a keyboard to handle that,
but then two "w" keys are needed, one for each interface, but that really just
avoids the issue that Unicode doesn't directly support language X that requires
superscripts.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=130520719-17092004><FONT face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック" color=#0000ff
size=2>My thought is to approach the Unicode committee with the problem, but I
would like to present the issue in a way that is informed with their issues and
that makes the case clear.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=130520719-17092004><FONT face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック" color=#0000ff
size=2>To me, the issue seems clear: If Unicode does not have a superscripted
"w" as a character, there is no way for me to write Makah in e-mail, Excel,
Yahoo!Chat or most of the other software. If Unicode does have it, users need
only get an updated version of the Unicode font for their system to be able to
display it correctly. The downside of this is perhaps a need to greatly expand
the number of Unicode characters to support all the languages with such issues,
but given the myriads of Chinese characters already included, that doesn't seem
like THAT big of a deal.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=130520719-17092004><FONT face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック" color=#0000ff
size=2>The other solution is to provide a behind-the-scenes
superscripting-and-letter-shrinking code that makes any letter smaller in size
and superscripted. I don't think that is practical, though, due to the way
computers work.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=130520719-17092004><FONT face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック" color=#0000ff
size=2>With Longhorns (Windows 2006) well in the works, it might be too late,
but it seems this is a critical issue for continuing the widening compatability
of Microsoft's software with various languages. Again, I would like to make a
strong case to Microsoft. Along with this is the need to change the two-letter
language abbreviations used in HTML and Microsoft's language bars to a
three-letter abbreviation such as the Ethnologue uses. With only two letters,
we'll run out of possible languages after 625 languages.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=130520719-17092004><FONT face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック" color=#0000ff
size=2>Does anyone have experience in approaching these
bodies?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=130520719-17092004><FONT face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック" color=#0000ff
size=2>Benjamin Barrett</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=130520719-17092004><FONT face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック" color=#0000ff
size=2>Baking the World a Better Place (with the famous dog
Pasco)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=130520719-17092004><FONT face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック" color=#0000ff
size=2><A href="http://www.hiroki.us">www.hiroki.us</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Rudolph
C Troike [mailto:rtroike@u.arizona.edu] <BR></FONT><TT><BR>When Benjamin Barrett
mentioned that he was having trouble getting<BR>superscripts in MS Word, I
recalled my own frustration at doing this and<BR>e-mailed a friend who works at
Microsoft about the question, as well as<BR>keyboard re-mapping for other
purposes. I am forwarding part of his<BR>response
below.<BR><BR> Rudy<BR><BR><BR>----------
Forwarded message ----------<BR>There is in fact a shortcut key in Word for
superscripting. Select the<BR>character you want to superscript, and then press:
Ctrl-Shift-+<BR><BR>You can find the shortcut key for any Word command (or
assign one of your own) in the following way:<BR><BR> 1. Go to Tools
and select Customize<BR> 2. Click Keyboard...<BR> 3.
Select the category the command belongs to<BR> in
the Categories list, and then select the<BR>
command name in the Commands list.</TT></DIV>
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