Wow, thanks for this cool tool! Now I can edit international text for most European languages directly from my extended custom French keyboard (including the missing OE and AE ligatures that I wanted since long on the French keyboard)...
(I changed the degree sign to a ring diacritic dead key, added AltGr+Circumflex as a new dead key for CARON, added AltGr+T for THORN, AltGr+S for SHARP S, AltGr+A for AE, AltGr+O for OE, AltGr+/ for O WITH SLASH, Shift+SQUARE EXPONENT for CUBE EXPONENT, added AltGr+1 for a new accute dead key, and I added a lot of compositions for accute, grave, circumflex, tilde, ring...) How could I live without it ? That's the end of the Charmap nightmare (and no more need of specific editors or external tools as I use the same keyboard layout as my current keyboard). What's marvelous is that it also support command line input with the OEM set (but I don't know how it works within a CP850 environment which theorically cannot display or input those characters...) How does Microsoft support the extended Unicode set from a CP850 environment? With some ANSI sequences? All I can say is that a command like "echo o" is correctly executed and accepted and displays the correct character. But "echo o >txt" creates a 4 bytes file which contains the small letter o, a CRLF sequence and a DOS EOF mark. There's some hidden magic in the console on Windows which actually can displays Unicode even in a CP850 environment... I was no aware of that fact! -- Philippe. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cathy Wissink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Azzedine Ait Khelifa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 5:18 PM Subject: RE: Tamazight/berber language : How to send mail, write word documents .... Hello, I'm guessing from your references to Word and "Arial Unicode" that you are asking how to do this on a Windows system. Windows and Office do not ship with Tamazight input support by default, but we have recently released a free tool (the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator) that allows users on Windows 2000/Windows XP/Windows Server 2003 to create their own keyboards. For more information, please see http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx. Hope this helps. regards Cathy Wissink (Program Manager, Windows Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technology) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Azzedine Ait Khelifa Hello all, I need help about tamazight(berber) language. All letters of tamazght alphabet are into "arial Unicode" My question is easy (and certanely a stupid question), how i can send mail, write word document using "Arial Unicode MS" font ? At this time, I know that I should use UTF8 encoding. But how to tape each letter ???? Thank you for your help. Best regards, AAK
