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Re: Country names

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 14, 2003, 15:22
Tristan wrote:


> Roger Mills 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 > (the one with Windows XP---that's what you have now, isn't it?---will do > the job).
About as I suspected (and yes, I now have XP, also MS Word which I find more amenable than the XP Writer or whatever it is. Word also has the option of creating an email, which would make using Unicode very simple; I'll have to try it sometime......)
>You just have to find them.
Ah, believe you me, it was the first thing I looked for in the new setup!! .....Additionally, many
> people don't have Unicode support in their OS or mail clients. It is > thus much safer to use X-SAMPA.
Right.