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----- Original Message -----
From: Magda Danish (Unicode) <v-magdad@microsoft.com>
To: Unicode List <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 10:58 PM
Subject: FW: Various Unicode character sets in ONE MS Access'97 database f
> Can anyone out there respond to this inquiry. Thanks.
>
> Magda Danish
> Administrative Director
> The Unicode Consortium
> 650-693-3921
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: museum@proxy.sm.unacs.bg [mailto:museum@proxy.sm.unacs.bg]
> Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 5:26 AM
> To: info@unicode.org
> Subject: Various Unicode character sets in ONE MS Access'97 database
> field
>
>
> Dear Sirs,
>
> My name is Atanas Kiriakov. I am an archaeologist in a regional
> museum, not a professional programmer, but I have a good working
> knowledge of Access and so I am responsible for the museum
> information system. The only obstacles I've met so far concern the
> "Bibliography" database, where in ONE field I have to enter
> letters from the Bulgarian, English, French, Greek, Turkish...
> alphabets. When I tried to do it trough InsertSymbol or Character
> Map, all the previously entered characters converted into the code
> page of the inserted symbol.
>
> For the time being I've resorted to a TTF of my own - using Font
> Monger I replaced the useless characters with all the letters I
> need, but this is not an universal solution and it does create
> some minor sorting problems. I insert these symbols with the key
> combination "Alt+character_code". Is there a key combination for
> inserting an Unicode character trough its hexadecimal code while
> writing in an Access 97 database field? And if this is not
> possible under Windows 98 / Access 97, could it be done under some
> other operating system and/or other DBMS?
>
> Please, help us with professional consultation.
>
> Thank You in advance.
>
>
> Atanas Kiriakov, Museum of History, 4700 Smolyan, Bulgaria
>
> museum@sm.unacs.bg
>
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