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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun May 29 09:34:46 -0700 2005 ------- SBA: Thank you very much for your considered and understandable response. I will look at the insert special character thing. May I respectfully submit however that: 1) This problem is probably of more importance outside the U.S., which theoretically could hurt the uptake of OOo elsewhere. I think there would probably be more people with this request if more business people and foreigners were using OOo, but maybe someone with time to add this functionality will stop by in the future. 2) Lots of people have trouble inputting special characters not shown on their keyboards, but this is thought to be a "difficulty of computing". The best fix is to copy a character from an online document out of your web browser perhaps. In Japan there is a Windows tool called the foreign key editor, and you basically have to search through a table of a zillion characters and generally people wrongly find the symbol in a two-byte version specific to a given font, and not use the unicode or one-byte version. This is sometimes a stumper in companies that get documents from overseas, the most obvious one being the "mu" (micron) greek character which is either absent, or present (as single byte and/or double byte version), depending on the font. I found the same-named font (Times I think) used by a Spanish company must have been a different version or unicode version that was not found in Japan. Similarly Japanese companies often use two-byte Japanese versions of characters (like the Yen mark, greek and roman characters) which become junk (backslashes, wierd boxes, etc.) when read by a western firm. Anyway, it is an opportunity to provide clarity to the world if these problems all could be fixed with some kind of a life saving dialog. Not high priority perhaps though. Thank you very much. 2) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
