On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Gerhard Postpischil wrote: > McKown, John wrote: > > I vote for Unicode. I am really beginning to despise EBCDIC and all the > > other "ad hoc" stuff to support multiple character sets. > > I sympathize, having just worked through some bracket > incompatibilities with special software, but what would the > keyboard look like? Eight shift keys or worse ? <g> > > > Gerhard Postpischil > Bradford, VT
Naw, just have a keyboard which works for the most common characters that you use. There are a lot of such. The software needs to be changed to emit Unicode instead of whatever it is doing now. For unusual characters, you might need some sort of "compose" key, or a way to enter the character numerically. Eg. My keyboard does not have a "yen" sign. In Unicode, the "yen" is +U00A5. So I'd need to press the "Unicode" key, followed by 00A5 to enter a "yen" symbol. -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: An EIN stein. Maranatha! John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
