<DIV>Right now I have to type in an independent program like Word, which does support accents through Command + (like command ~ + a gets you a tilde over an a) but I can't currently do this through Sign Puddle. I have to import the word typed elsewhere.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Valerie Sutton <sutton@signwriting.org></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">SignWriting List<BR>October 20, 2004<BR><BR>Dear SW List and James and Dan!<BR>Typing all the symbols you need in any spoken language is <BR>important...You are both right about that!!<BR><BR>And people already type with those accents in Sign Puddle...Take a look <BR>at the attached screen capture of the Swiss-French Sign Puddle...see <BR>the accents on the words?...I will teach you how next message, if I <BR>can!!!...Thanks for your input on this...Val ;-)<BR><BR>------<BR><BR>James Kegl wrote:<BR>>> Query: When labeling signs in the glossary, am I constrained to use<BR>>> English? I would prefer Spanish glosses, but I do not know how to <BR>>> indicate<BR>>> accents.<BR><BR>><BR>Dan Parvaz wrote:<BR>Good question. Do we want to convert everything internally to (2-byte?)<BR>> Unicode? As for input, is there a platform-independent way of making<B!
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sure that diacritics are accounted for? This is important, expecially <BR>> for<BR>> languages where characters may take multiple diacritics. There are <BR>> schemes<BR>> where letters are followed by a diacritic placeholder (e/clair), which <BR>> can<BR>> then be converted internally.<BR><BR><BR>--------------------------<BR><BR><BR><BR>> ATTACHMENT part 2 image/gif name=Accents.gif; x-mac-type=47494666; x-unix-mode=0644; x-mac-creator=3842494D<BR><BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>