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[Andrew Cunningham]

The issue with printing may be related to the fact that some printers
used soft-fonts installed on the printer, if you look at the printer
settings in control panel, there may be options to specify if the
fonts is sent to the printer or the printer uses its own internal
fonts in memory.

For web mail, it is not advisable to ever mix encodings. If the
diacritics exist in iso-8859-1 or iso-8859-15, then easiest way is to
type them directly form the keyboard.

Windows98 is severely unicode challenged. But you can work with
Unicode and the SIL fonts just as long as you don't need complex
script behaviour, i.e. combining diacritics, glyph substitution, etc.


Andrew

2008/5/18 Rudy Troike <rtroike at email.arizona.edu>:
> Bill,
>
>   Just as an observation, a lot of people paste Word documents (memos,
> announcements, etc.) into our university Webmail (which I'm using now), and
> even something as simple as double quotes (") show up on the screen as
> question marks (?). (I always preferred WordPerfect 5.1, but gave it up for
> WP 11, and even had to abandon that because people couldn't read my
> attachments, as they wouldn't convert to Word for some reason). So I am
> wondering how well special characters, even ones chosen from the Word
> character options, would transmit on an institutional Webmail application
> (I haven't tried this, and should, just to find out).
>
>   [As a different matter, our Webmail allows for different languages, but
> for English uses Charset Western ISO-8859-1, with -15 as an option, but I
> don't know whether different character sets can be mixed in the same
> document such as the one I'm composing now. I've tried, and haven't been
> able to figure out how to put accents on vowels, though I've seen them come
> through in Linguist List annoucements. Maybe Phil Cash Cash has the answer
> to this, since he is using the same Webmail.]
>
>   A second problem comes in printing. I can compose a document, such as
> a class handout, using the special Word characters, but my fairly up to date
> HP LaserJet 4050 leaves blanks (or less often prints other characters) where
> the desired character appears fine onscreen. So I have to wind up going back
> and writing these in by hand. It's messy and maddening. I can send the Word
> documents to others as attachments, but I would guess that many of them
> would have the same problem with not seeing the characters printed out, so
> they wouldn't be able to understand what I was writing about.
>
>   I did once try downloading some of the SIL fonts in order to be able to
> use phonetic symbols, but I could never get them to show up onscreen within
> a Word document, or if I did (it's been several years now), they would not
> print on my old HP printer (using Windows 98).
>
>   Any suggestions on these problems would be appreciated.
>
>   Rudy
>



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Andrew Cunningham
Vicnet Research and Development Coordinator
State Library of Victoria
Australia

andrewc at vicnet.net.au
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