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From:Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...>
Date:Monday, May 3, 2004, 9:37
By the way, I was wondering about the following:

When somebody feels like sending some Unicode on this
list, wouldn'it be possible he justs sends, either the
hexadecimal, either the decimal codes, separated by a
blank or a comma, and then somebody would write a nice
little macro allowing, once you pasted these codes
into a Word document, to translate them automatically
into Unicode in this Word document ?

In Windows XP, when you do Insert a Special Code, the
system shows you the exact code you are about to
inser.

I believe it shouldn't be that hard, but I'm no used
to writing Word macros.

For ex (if I remember, because I have not XP at hand
just now), you could send:
1040,1041,1042,1043

Then you could copy and paste this into a Word
Document, and execute a macro that would show you the
actual letters (in that case, the first letters of
Cyrillic alphabet, if I'm not mistaken).


--- "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:
> On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 05:48:14PM -0500, Danny Wier > wrote: > > Also, Maltese-language websites would have to be > encoded > > either in Unicode or an obscure ISO Latin > encoding, because of some of its > > more exotic letters. > > Which means Unicode. > > > None of the Windows (can't say about Mac) > encodings > > include Maltese or Esperanto, just Western and > Central European, Baltic, > > Greek and Cyrillic. > > Except that modern Windows versions use Unicode at > the core and have > support for the whole repertoire; you just need the > right fonts, and > there are plenty of fonts available that cover > things like Maltese. > Heck, the Esperanto letters are in Times New Roman > these days. > > -Mark
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