Re: Using Diacritics

From: "Tristan McLeay" <kesuari@...>
> If you're running Windows 2000 or XP (at least; other versions may work
> too), you should have a unicode character map. Using it, you can insert
> any unicode character. I *think* (but cannot confirm) that the Word
> Insert Symbol command should do it too (if you have a big enough font...
> it has/had this habit of only letting you use the current font or
> 'symbol' fonts rather than any random font. Intelligent MS...).
You get around this by typing in the name of the font you want in the box.  It
won't be listed, but it should switch to that font's character set.

As for the font in question, Book Antiqua is a decent font compared to many when
it comes to international characters (it has, I think, the whole WGL4) but it
doesn't have much in the way of combining diacritics, so you might want to look
in a different font if that's what you want (or modify one you have to create
the characters you need, if you have the ability to do this well).


    *Muke!
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