Re: Country names

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 05:40:28PM +1000, Tristan McLeay wrote:
> >Now I'm curious-- how do you get Unicode characters into email????
> The normal way would be to copy and paste from a Unicode character map
Which works for occasional characters that you rarely need.  For more
regular use it helps to have a mail client that lets you use Word
as your message composer, since Word will let you map arbitrary
keychords to arbitrary Unicode characters.  (The Insert->Symbol
dialog box lets you assign a keychord to the selected character.)

Personally, I use mutt on Linux with vim as my composer;
thus I can use digraphs for a huge variety of characters,
insert by code point for anything else, and set up keymaps
for commonly-used sets.  For instance, I have a Spanish
keymap in which typing /a gives me a á, but if I switch
to Latin mode that same sequence gives me ā.

At work I run in a UTF-8 xterm, but at home I SSH from a Windows box
running Kermit-95 as the SSH client, using the Everson Mono Terminal
font that came with the latter program.  It's a very complete font,
even moreso now that I've used a font editor to paste in the KLI
pIqaD glyphs in their Conscript-assigned locations within the
private use area.  Thus I can switch to pIqaD mode and type
the normal Klingon transcription and it comes out in pIqaD . . .
but that's only useful to others who have done likewise with
some font. :)

-Mark