- From: Dave J Woolley <david.woolley@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 18:46:53 +0100
- To: "'www-amaya@w3.org'" <www-amaya@w3.org>
> From: John Russell [SMTP:ve3ll@rac.ca] > > What is the procedure for entering character entities other > than those on the accented characters list. > For example thorn is missed as well as the representations > for cent, pound sterling, euro, copyright etc. [DJW:] [DJW:] The normal OS mechanism, e.g. for Windows, ALT-0163, or cut and paste from charmap. For GBP, of course, you just type in, if you are using a British keyboard. > Perhaps the page that deals with accented characters can be expanded > to include all the entities (ie generalized). Personally I would [DJW:] There are around 60,000 numeric entities. XML only has four or five named character entities common to all applications. > like to see pallets for this but for the moment if the procedure > was clearly documented (and a help menu pointer to same) [DJW:] If it's not clearly documented, and you are using Windows, complain to Microsoft. [DJW:] Chinese on a non-Chinese build of Windows is more difficult (Amaya doesn't support such characters yet, though); you have to enter them into a form in IE and then cut and paste them (works to get them into paintbrush). Actually, Mozilla appears to hook into the the Chinese input method that is provided for IE and allows one to compose in Chinese without subterfuges. This is for NT; I think that Win 98 Unicode support is less good. Character input methods really ought not to be the realm of individual applications. [DJW:] -- --------------------------- DISCLAIMER --------------------------------- Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of BTS.
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