Yes, it's a long way from (a.) ;-) Question from my son, who teaches English as a foreign language: how do you type IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) into Twitter or Facebook?
He thinks it would be too tedious to copy/paste from a program that lets you compose a unicode string. Microsoft does a keyboard layout creator: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964665.aspx but that's no good for my Mac. Does anyone have any experience with it? Ian 2009/9/6 Björn Helgason <[email protected]>: > Even if I have known about Unicode for a long time everything about it > seems to be complicated. > You copy something that in one environment is different but looks the > same over to another an then it is the same. > Autoatic conversions happen sometimes and sometimes not. > It is even worse when you have ASCII that looks the same and is > sometimes codepage numbers sometimes UTF8 and then Unicode. > Sometimes you have BOM in files and sometimes not etc. > > 2009/9/6 bill lam <[email protected]>: >> What did you expect to get then? >> >> On Sun, 06 Sep 2009, Björn Helgason wrote: >>> u: 9827 9830 9829 9824 >>> ♣♦♥♠ >>> 8 u: u: 9827 9830 9829 9824 >>> ♣♦♥♠ >>> a. i. u: 9827 9830 9829 9824 >>> 256 256 256 256 >>> a. i. 8 u: u: 9827 9830 9829 9824 >>> 226 153 163 226 153 166 226 153 165 226 153 160 >>> >>> uni1 =. u: 9827 9830 9829 9824 >>> uni2 =. 8 u: u: 9827 9830 9829 9824 >>> uni1 >>> ♣♦♥♠ >>> uni2 >>> ♣♦♥♠ >>> a. i. uni1 >>> 256 256 256 256 >>> a. i. uni2 >>> 226 153 163 226 153 166 226 153 165 226 153 160 >>> >>> Then I copy uni1 and uni2 respectively over to m$ word and I get: >>> >>> ♣♦♥♠ >>> >>> 2663 2666 2665 2660 >>> >>> ♣♦♥♠ >>> >>> 2663 2666 2665 2660 >>> >>> >>> 2009/9/6 bill lam <[email protected]>: >>> [---=| TOFU protection by t-prot: 32 lines snipped |=---] >> >> -- >> regards, >> ==================================================== >> GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 >> gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > -- > Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur > Fugl&Fiskur ehf, > Þerneyjarsundi 23, Hraunborgum > Po Box 127,801 Selfoss , > t-póst: [email protected] > gsm: +3546985532 > Landslags og skrúðgarðagerð, gröfuþjónusta > http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming > > > Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans > > góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum > /|_ .-----------------------------------. > ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | > ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | > / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | > ( -. | `-----------------------------------' > | ) | (\_ _/) > (`-. '--.) (='.'=) ♖♘♗♕♔♙ > `. )----' (")_(") ☃☠ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
