RE: unicode in Mac
Raymond Mercier wrote: Given a plain text unicode file, with the opening byte FEFF, and which displays correctly in Notepad on a PC. What facility is available on a Mac to make this file display correctly ? I am trying to help a colleague, who has MAC OS IX, and I need to tell him what font will cover Greek and Extended Greek. You can find my survey of Unicode-aware editors for Mac OS 9 at: http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/utilities_editors_mac.html For a font that covers Greek and Greek Extended, you could try Gentium: http://www.sil.org/~gaultney/gentium/ Alan Wood http://www.alanwood.net (Unicode, special characters, pesticide names)
Re: unicode in Mac
Alan Wood wrote: For a font that covers Greek and Greek Extended, you could try Gentium: http://www.sil.org/~gaultney/gentium/ Or, if you're just looking for a really nice typeface for body text, Gentium is a good-looking (and award-winning) design. Rick
Re: unicode in Mac
At 17:13 + 2003-01-26, Raymond Mercier wrote: Given a plain text unicode file, with the opening byte FEFF, and which displays correctly in Notepad on a PC. Open it in TextExit? I wouldn't know about the opening byte stuff. -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
unicode in Mac
Given a plain text unicode file, with the opening byte FEFF, and which displays correctly in Notepad on a PC. What facility is available on a Mac to make this file display correctly ? I am trying to help a colleague, who has MAC OS IX, and I need to tell him what font will cover Greek and Extended Greek. Raymond Mercier
Re: unicode in Mac
Well, that opening byte is either a BOM or its ZWNBSP. Either way its something you would not really see if the either the app or the rendering engine understand Unicode MichKa - Original Message - From: Michael Everson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 9:36 AM Subject: Re: unicode in Mac At 17:13 + 2003-01-26, Raymond Mercier wrote: Given a plain text unicode file, with the opening byte FEFF, and which displays correctly in Notepad on a PC. Open it in TextExit? I wouldn't know about the opening byte stuff. -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
Re: unicode in Mac
On Sunday, January 26, 2003, at 10:13 AM, Raymond Mercier wrote: Given a plain text unicode file, with the opening byte FEFF, and which displays correctly in Notepad on a PC. What facility is available on a Mac to make this file display correctly ? I am trying to help a colleague, who has MAC OS IX, and I need to tell him what font will cover Greek and Extended Greek. Do you mean Mac OS X, or Mac OS 9? For the former, TextEdit would work fine. If your friend is on Mac OS X 10.2 or later, the system font, Lucida Grande, has a full set of glyphs for Greek and Extended Greek. Otherwise any of the free Greek fonts on the Internet would work. On Mac OS 9, the situation is a bit grimmer, as there aren't many Unicode-savvy applications. SUE would be one option. You should be able to find it using Google. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tejat.net/
Re: unicode in Mac
Tom Gewecke writes PS The FEFF could well be the BOM (Byte Order Mark) which NotePad puts at the beginning of UTF-8 encoded files (even though it is not needed or customary for other apps to do so). It does not have any significance. The opening bytes are FF FE ( or FEFF read as a short integer), imposed when the file is saved in Word as a plain text unicode. If these two bytes are deleted the text still opens correctly in Notepad. The MAC OS is OS 9; my colleague has been put off by an attempt to install OS X, although the CD for it came with his new machine. I am surprised that he should expect such difficulties with OS 9. Raymond