SYMBOLS

[Alfred W. Tüting]

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Alfred


Am 13.07.2007 um 22:12 schrieb Rankin, Robert L:

> Jimm,
>
> Yeah, you definitely want to convert to Unicode.  it comes thru  
> fine.  Your correspondents can set their email programs to be able  
> to read it.
>
>    Bob
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu on behalf of Jimm GoodTracks
> Sent: Fri 7/13/2007 11:34 AM
> To: Steve Ellsworth
> Cc: Jimm ThigrePi; Patt; RuEBEN AxeweHu
> Subject: SYMBOLS
>
>
> Steve:
> Instead of working on my IOM Dictionary entries, I waste this  
> morning time exploring the pre-MS-Vista Menus" tab.  And I think  
> "What is different now on my old classic menu.
>
> So interestingly, I find under "Menus" >Insert > Symbols > More  
> Symbols.....Letters for the prominent alphabets of the world, i.e.,  
> Latin, Greek-Coptic, Russian, Arabic, and misc. drawing lines, and  
> other stuff I am not recognizing, ....and then this...
> the glottal stop and the enge (elongated tailed "n"), which I am  
> printing below this line to see if they make it to your PC.
> ???
> These same symbols above and those alphabets used to be in the font  
> character maps under the previous system.  Perhaps they still are,  
> but I am not checking it out now.
> There in the maps, they showed keying in code(s) and how to make a  
> short key insert which I never attempted.  What is significant here  
> IS...
>
> They are listed as "Unicode".  In short, this is a world wide font  
> set to eliminate the world wide problem we've experienced locally,  
> namely, using a set of fonts with accented (stressed) vowels and  
> various special character fonts in the course of our document  
> files, sending those files to another PC user, who receives them  
> corrupted or with a substituted font such as the deutsche esetz  
> (spelling?), i.e., the German letter for a double "s", as in "Nuss  
> (nut)".
>
> Let me know if these arrive on your PC, as I am using the MENUS tab  
> you place on the PC yesterday.  If you receive them, it will be a  
> phenomenal achievement for self, Rueben, and other assistants in  
> the various Siouan Languages Prograns, and the double benefit will  
> more be to enable more easily the requirement of DEL/ NSF/ ANA  
> grants, and allow us to eliminate the need  to transfer the Siouan  
> Font files among ourselves.  Well, at least for Ioway, Otoe- 
> Missouria, anyway, and perhaps, Hochank/ Winnebago.
> Jimm
>
> P.S.:  I am drawing my conclusions above based on my general  
> abilities to accomplish the needs of my lexicology and bilingual  
> texts projects, and without a clue  to the implications and  
> interfacing of the many vintages of PCs out there, and in  
> particular, our MSWord/ Office '98-2003 applications with the  
> recent MSVista Word/ Office.
> To date, I am aware of your counsel to avoid the automatic Vista  
> extension added on to saved. doc files, which would preclude other  
> PC users being able to open attached .doc files, and the fact of  
> the loss of certain functions under the new Vista tabs.
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