On Wed, 12 May 2004, Michael Good wrote: > Hello J�rg, > > You can enter Turkish or other characters into Finale, but you need to > specify the native Windows or Mac character set. Finale lets you set the > script for different types of text. I think if you search the archives > you will find some hints on how to do this, as well as on the MakeMusic > forum. On Windows XP, I can do this by using the alt+numpad method for > the Unicode encodings - copy and paste does get the ? character for me. > Sibelius does support Unicode.
On three occasions I have had to use Finale for pieces with Japanese text. Unfortunately (at least, last time I checked), that requires a special purchase of a Japanese version of Finale, since my version doesn't support the double-byte characters needed for Japanese. Every other major computer application I have (includine Sibelius) supports Unicode. With Unicode applications, all I have to do is figure out how to input Japanese characters (with a Japanese Input Method Editor), (possibly) download some fonts that support Japanese, and the application just works ... for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Greek, etc. I imagine Finale has bigger worries (like making Finale work on Mac) than meeting my unusual needs. Until Finale supports Unicode, I will continue to buy each Finale upgrade. -- Weldon Whipple [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
