LL-L "Software" 2002.11.06 (02) [E]

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From: Mathieu. van Woerkom Mathieu.vanWoerkom at student.kun.nl
Subject: Software

Ron Wrote:

> > This Unicode mode allows us to use characters we were not able to use
> > previously (provided the reader has a Unicode font installed), such
> as
> > Cyrillic ones, Greek ones (Î^λλενικα), and (hopefully) IPA
> characters
> > ([fo 'n tɪks]), perhaps even Chinese (中æ-?), Japanese
> (æ-¥æo¬èªzでæ>¸ã).  (I'm
> running
> > a test here.)

and Andy wrote:

> It worked fine with under Linux with the Email programme that's part of
> Mozilla.
> In my Windows version of MS Outlook Express the IPA didn't work.

The same for me...the IPA symbols didn't show, as for the Chinese and
Japanese.

Also, because my e-mail program is web-based, I have to open each message in
a
new window in order to be able to change the view to Unicode and see all the
special characters. It's not such a big deal, but now I can't even
read 'simple' ö's and ä's without changing the message coding each single
time.
So Unicode does have a downside too :-)

Mathieu

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