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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"> </font></p>From:
<span class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color:#00681c">Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc.</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:roger.thijs@euro-support.be">roger.thijs@euro-support.be</a></span></span><br>Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L Technical</span><br>
<br><div><font size="2">Some of you are very proficient in squeezing exotic
character sets in your mail, and I am still puzzling how it all
works.</font></div>
<div><font size="2"><br>1 - First of all I see different application
levels</font></div>
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<div>a - language of the <strong>start EPROM</strong> of the PC: mostly English
I think<br>b - language / character types of the <strong>operating
system</strong> (e.g. what you get with Windows 7 Premium Service Pack
1)<br>c - layout and configuration of the <strong>keyboard</strong> (AZERTY or
"Belgian French" generally in Belgium)<br>d - Fonts loaded <strong>additionally
from somewhere</strong> / some soft in the OS environment (both screen fonts,
print fonts)<br>e - The former includes exotic symbols at the end of each font
lists, where some symbols eventually can be used for other languages (if
sufficiently complete for those languages)<br>f - <strong>Applications</strong>
(e.g. Microsoft Office Professional Pus 2010) <br>g - Language packages
supplied/sold by the <strong>supplier of the application</strong> (for adjusting
the environment (caption on buttons etc.) and/or for supporting the appications
(speller/grammar check)<br> Microsoft sells as well small packages (limited
"Language Interface Packs" and complete "Language Packs")<br> I bought a
<em>German </em>MS Office version on <a href="http://amazon.de/" target="_blank">amazon.de</a> some months ago.<br> And
afterwards the language packages <em>Dutch, English, French, Swedish,
Greek</em><br> The latter include the possibility of getting captions on
screens and help files in these languages, and give additionally grammar checks
ans thesaurus functions.<br> They also give spelling checkers for a couple
of additional languages each, but since most of them offer English, German
and French, there is hardly a chance one gets something exotic for free.<br>See
below.<br>Wat languages I got additionally as checkers is:<br> Spanish with
English and French<br> Italian with German,<br> Finnish witrh
Swedish,<br> Arabic with French<br>h - Modules sold/offered by third
parties: chinese / ipa and applicable .. where to find?<br>btw: <br>. Where can
one fine chinese sets and ipa sets? (Was already discussed in this list)<br>. Do
these programs just deliver fonts (and a virtual keyboard on screen?) or do they
deliver also some forms of language assistance?<br>. Do they apply at windows
level for all appications: MS Word; Mail Programms (outgoing mail); pdf
converters; web page composerd</div>
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<div>2 - What about the readers of web mail and web pages?<br>Do you have to
blow-up your stuff and embed font sets in your applications for being
sure your readers will be able to read?<br>Or can you force their
computers to find an appropriate font set on the web automatically?</div>
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<div>3 - Hardware<br>What about keyboards:<br>Has it sense to buy e.g. a
cyrillic keyboard additionally, and switch keyboards when switching
languages?<br>(I once had to program in a unix environment and at the time I
switched often between a Belgian AZERTY keuboard and a US QUERTY keyboard)</div>
<div>How to map exotic characters to the keys of the keyboard? Doing it all with
alt-1234?</div>
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<div>Thanks ahead for all comments.<br>Regards,</div>
<div><br>Annex: MS Office language packages (cost actually: 27 euro each for
downloading)</div>
<div><br><em>"The table below lists all localized versions of the Office 2010
suites, along with the languages of the proofing tools provided in each.<br>To
work in languages not included in your localized version, you can get individual
Office Language Packs 2010. Office Language Packs include Display, Help, and
editing tools for many languages; you can add Office Language Packs to any of
the products listed in the table below. This table can also be used to determine
which companion document proofing languages are included in individual Office
Language Packs."</em></div>
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Localized version Includes proofing tools in these languages
<br>Arabic Arabic, French, English <br>Bulgarian
Bulgarian, English, German, Russian <br>Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Simplified), English <br>Chinese (Traditional)
Chinese (Traditional), English <br>Croatian Croatian, English,
German, Italian, Serbian Cyrillic, Serbian Latin <br>Czech Czech,
English, German, , Slovak <br>Danish Danish, English, German,
Swedish <br>+ <strong>Dutch</strong> Dutch, English, French, German
<br>+ <strong>English</strong> English, French,
*<strong>Spanish*</strong> <br>Estonian Estonian, English, Finnish,
German, Russian <br>Finnish Finnish, English, German, Russian,
Swedish <br>+ <strong>French</strong> French,
*<strong>Arabic*,</strong> Dutch, English, German, *<strong>Spanish*</strong>
<br>+ <strong>German</strong> German, English, French,
*<strong>Italian*</strong> <br>+ <strong>Greek</strong> Greek,
English, French, German <br>Hebrew Hebrew, Arabic, English, French,
Russian <br>Hindi Hindi, English, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi,
Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu <br>Hungarian Hungarian, English,
German <br>Italian Italian, English, French, German
<br>Japanese Japanese, English <br>Kazakh English,
Russian <br>Korean Korean, English <br>Latvian Latvian,
English, German, Russian <br>Lithuanian Lithuanian, English, German,
Polish, Russian <br>Norwegian Norwegian, English, German, Norwegian
(Nynorsk) <br>Polish Polish, English, German <br>Portuguese
(Brazil) Portuguese (Brazil), English, Spanish <br>Portuguese
(Portugal) Portuguese (Portugal), English, Spanish
<br>Romanian Romanian, English, French <br>Russian
Russian, English, German, Ukrainian <br>Serbian Serbian,
Croatian, English, French, German <br>Slovak Slovak, Czech, English,
German , Hungarian <br>Slovenian Slovenian, Croatian, English,
German, Italian <br>Spanish Spanish, Basque, Catalan, English,
French, Galician, Portuguese (Brazil) <br>+ <strong>Swedish
</strong> Swedish, English, <strong>*Finnish*,</strong> German
<br>Thai Thai, English, French <br>Turkish Turkish,
English, French, German <br>Ukrainian Ukrainian, English, German,
Russian<br><br>----------<br><br><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:0in">From:
R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></div>
Subject: Technica<br><br>Hi, Roger!<br><br>A quick and dirty way accessing and then copying and pasting "special" characters, for example into e-mail messages, is though Richard Ishida's "Unicode character pickers": <a href="http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/pickers/">http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/pickers/</a><br>
<br>For instance, the Latin picker offers you all the characters you need, and then some: <a href="http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/pickers/latin/">http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/pickers/latin/</a><br><br>There is also a nifty IPA picker: <a href="http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/pickers/ipa/">http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/pickers/ipa/</a><br>
<br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br>Seattle, USA<br><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><br></div><font color="#888888"><br></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center">
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