Re: Using Diacritics

Joe Fatula wrote:

>I'm sure this question has been answered many times before, but...
>
>I'm trying to find a way to write any characters with diacritics, such as
>yogh with macron, or o-slash with ogonek, etc.  How can I write such
>characters?  I'd need some way of combining any glyph with any diacritic,
>but I don't know how to do this.  On my computer I have MS Word 2000, and I
>have no money to buy new software.  I'm not worried about being able to use
>these characters in e-mail, just to be able to type and print them.  It'd be
>great if I could do this using a font I already like, Book Antiqua.
>
>And if one could do this sort of thing in Word, that'd be even better.  I've
>set up a number of macros in Word for my dictionary system that I use all
>the time.
>
>
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...). Then,
just insert the base character (either from the keyboard or the charmap)
followed by the diacritic you want from the combining diacritics range.
(There are more combining diacritics floating around in e.g. the Greek
range. If you want to find them all, I suggest you look at the character
code PDFs on the Unicode website <http://www.unicode.org> and find any
with a faded o.)

That method should work for any Unicode-compliant application (using the
built-in charmap), including Notepad 2000/XP.

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