From: "Stefan Persson" <alsjebegrijptwatikbedoel@yahoo.se>
> > > Is there any IME, keyboard, or any similar utility to
> > > typing in the letters of the ᚠᚢᚦᚨᚱᚴ, the Runic alphabet?
> Sorry for not mentionning it. I am using Windows 98.
Hmmm..... certainly nothing from MS, even in the form of drivers one could
write if one downloads the DDK, really understands low level keyboard type
stuff, and attempted to write a driver -- since user messaging (including
keyboarding) on Win9x is code page based and there is no Runic code page at
all (let alone a Windows version that would have such a code page as its
system default).
On the whole, if one is interested in Unicode outside of the GDI, one needs
to run away from Win9x as fast as one can.
BUT there is not currently an NT-based solution from Microsoft (other than
the DDK) which would solve this problem either.... so although upgrade would
be a good thing, I would not recommend it for this problem....
There might be third party products that can help you, but so far the ones I
have seen have not impressed me too terribly since they seem to work by
hacks tend to indicate that the aforementioned "DDK parsing" never took
place. No offense against them intended or implied -- I just like elegant
code. :-)
Perhaps someone can suggest a third party product that would help here?
MichKa
Michael Kaplan
Trigeminal Software, Inc.
http://www.trigeminal.com/
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