Re: TECH: Unicode and Macs

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:41:33 -0500 James Worlton <jworlton@...>
writes:
> I run a Mac with OS 9.2 (maybe not as recent as you were hoping...) I
> did have problems with keyboard layouts which I was able to fix by
> going
> to http://wordherd.com/keyboards/ and creating a new keyboard layout
> for
> the characters I needed (eth, thorn, macron vowels). Unfortunately,
> it
> only works with my email software (Netscape 7.x). My version of
> Appleworks does not support Unicode. I don't know about OS X, so I
> couldn't help you there.
> I got around the problem for my conlanging documents by using the
> Junius
> Modern font, which replaces some of the ASCII characters with the
> ones I
> needed. (Try http://www.engl.virginia.edu/OE/Fonts.About.html)
> a (a-macron), e (e-macron), o (o-macron), � (eth), � (thorn)
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Thanks for the info!


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