From: David J. Perry (hospes@scholarsfonts.net)
Date: Tue Apr 05 2005 - 07:51:26 CST
Word 2003 (and Publisher 2003, I am told, but cannot say from
experience) use a private, updated version of Uniscribe, which is why
combining marks work in Word 2003 but no earlier version. Service pack
2 of WinXP also provides an updated Uniscribe, which is why combining
marks work in Notepad if you have updated your system.
> Fine, although one of the 'clever' things in Word is that at
> least there I
> can enter any character I want, but in Notepad how does one
> enter M+macron ?
You have to copy and paste from Word, or use CharacterMap (BMP
characters only) or Andrew West's BabelMap; or create your own keyboard
with Microsoft's Keyboard Layout Creator.
David Perry
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