Hi Carl,
"Carl W. Brown" wrote:
> People are starting to get used to the idea that a square box might be a
> missing character or it could just be a square box.
Reminds me that Freud said: "Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar." ;-)
OTOH if that saw:
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Tex,
> -Original Message-
> From: Tex Texin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2002 9:46 AM
> To: Carl W. Brown
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Proposal (was: "Missing character" glyph)
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> "Carl W. Brown" wrote:
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> > I presume that the user has to know
With a bit more thought we might reduce the minimum point size of an
unrenderable character as follows:
The numbers represent a dot position of that bit is a one. It is blank if
the bit is 0.
The XX characters are lines with an inverted wide squared U at the top with
the edges coming down to al
"Carl W. Brown" wrote:
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> I presume that the user has to know that the character cannot be displayed.
I don't see how the user can know this. Depending on the usage, an odd
glyph can look like a bullet or other marker. In some cases therefore,
the user might presume it is just a unique way of
I presume that the user has to know that the character cannot be displayed.
However using a special glyph has a number of problems:
1) You do not know if the character is missing and the glyph is substituted
or if the text really encodes the glyph.
2) If you see multiple missing characters, you
At 02:11 AM 8/4/2002 +0430, you wrote:
>Even a very non-trivial reference to somewhere in MSDN I can give to a
>programmer as a start point?
When it comes to setting up a keyboard layout the first thing is to
distinguish between Win95/98/ME and NT4/Win2000.
In the former the layout is fixed by
David,
At 03:52 PM 3/08/2002 -0700, David Possin wrote:
>The whole DDK is documented in msdn. Do a search for 'keyboard DDK"
>there and you will find a lot of information. When I am on my develoer
>system next week I will look at the DDK itself on our CDs and I will
>let you know offlist what I f
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