Re: Non-standard 8-bit fonts still in use

2016-05-02 Thread Oren Watson
Hm... I don't think that simply search-replacing of ascii characters for the characters the font uses them for will work, except on .txt files. Microsoft Word documents, HTML files, and any other non-plaintext files will almost certainly be corrupted by such a program, because the tags might

Re: Non-standard 8-bit fonts still in use

2016-05-02 Thread Ed Trager
In addition to creating platform-specific keyboard layouts as Doug suggested, I would also like to point out that it is now also possible —and possibly even easier— to create web-based keyboard and input method engines that may allow a greater degree of cross-platform support, reducing

Re: Non-standard 8-bit fonts still in use

2016-05-02 Thread Martin J. Dürst
Hello Don, I agree with Doug that creating a good keyboard layout is a good thing to do. Among the people on this list, you probably have the best contacts, and can help create some test layouts and see how people react. Also, creating fonts that have the necessary coverage but are encoded