In Microsoft Office 2000 dialogs, Windows 2000 WordPad, and various other
places that the RichEdit editors are used, you can enter Unicode characters
by numeric value in two ways:
1) type the character code in hex and type Alt+x. This converts the hex to
the Unicode character. An appropriate font is chosen in case the current
font doesn't support the character code. Type Shift+Alt+x and you do the
reverse: the hex replaces the Unicode character that preceded the insertion
point (handy especially if you see a "missing glyph" glyph and want to know
what the character is). Use selection to disambiguate a hex code that
immediately follows legitimate hex characters not part of the code.
2) Use Alt+NumPad numbers with values > 255 to enter Unicode characters
using decimal values. This approach isn't as handy, since you can't see
what hexadigits you've typed, nor can you correct them, except by reentering
them all.
The first approach is very general in that it can be used on most computer
systems. The only problem we've found is that Alt+x is sometimes used to
mean eXit. This usage occurs, for example, as an option on the Office File
menu.
For more discussion, please see my paper "Tips and Tricks on Editing and
Displaying Unicode Text" at the Fourteenth International Unicode Conference,
Boston, March, 1999.
Thanks
Murray
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Magda Danish (Unicode) [SMTP:v-magdad@microsoft.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 1999 12:09 PM
> To: Unicode List
> Subject: FW: Two questions about Unicode
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Armin Bassarak [mailto:bassarak@bibliothek.uni-halle.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 1999 8:24 AM
> To: info@unicode.org
> Subject: Two questions about Unicode
>
>
> Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
> Let me ask, please, two questions about Unicode:
>
> 1. Up to now I did not find a possibility of entering a unicode character
> disponible on my computer via ALT-xxxx or something like that. When I
> enter
> a combination grater than ALT-0255 I only get simple ASCII (or ANSI)
> characters. And selecting characters with the mouse from a list of unicode
> characters is a very slow procedure.
>
> 2. On my computer there is a very nice unicode font (Lucida Sans Unicode,
> you certainly know it). But it does not contain some characters needed for
> scientific transliteration of Arabic letters like e.g. h with dot below
> (1E25=7717) and others. And my browser (Netscape 4.5 under WindowsNT4)
> does
> even not support this character (and others). How can I find the necessary
> fonts and programs in order to use these characters defined in Unicode?
>
> I know that my second question is a very large and perhaps difficult one,
> but the first question is very urgent for me. I hope you will be able to
> answer at least my first question.
>
> Yours sincerely,
> Armin Bassarak
>
>
>
>
> -----
> Dr. Armin Bassarak
> Fachreferent für Turkologie
> ULB Halle, SSG Vorderer Orient
> bassarak@bibliothek.uni-halle.de
> http://www.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/info/adress/fbassara.htm
> -----
> "The stone age was marked by man's clever use
> of crude tools; the information age, to date, has
> been marked by man's crude use of clever tools." - Anonymous
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