Re: unicode in Mac

2003-01-27 Thread Rick McGowan
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

2003-01-27 Thread Alan Wood
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 > > w

Re: unicode in Mac

2003-01-26 Thread Michael Everson
OS X is far, far superior to OS 9. -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com

Re: unicode in Mac

2003-01-26 Thread Raymond Mercier
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 inte

Re: unicode in Mac

2003-01-26 Thread John H. Jenkins
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

Re: unicode in Mac

2003-01-26 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
CTED]> 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

Re: unicode in Mac

2003-01-26 Thread Michael Everson
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.co