Tech: Unicode (was...)

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

=====
Philippe Caquant

"High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs)


	
		
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