EnDash@aol.com
April 13th, 2010, 02:13 PM
I liked it much better when my composing room was the only private one on
the continent that could set just about every language and script in
commercial use worldwide -- and then the computer geniuses got to work and made it
easy for everyone to do on a cheap little computer.
It was great fun being one of the few people who could sit down and
actually typeset in such scripts as Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Thai, etc.
when nobody else could.
-- Dick
In a message dated 4/13/2010 1:43:58 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
chuck (AT) tdi (DOT) ca writes:
Since Windows XP Notepad has had the capability of using more than just
ANSI characters, which can cause interesting effects. See the URL below for
the basic overview:
_http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en
-us/win_notepad_utf_description.mspx?mfr=true_
(http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/win_notepad_utf_descripti
on.mspx?mfr=true)
The term big-endian, one of the types of what we used to refer to as byte
sex, explains why some characters, if they are more than a byte long, may
be mangled in Windows/Mac or Mac/Windows transport.
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the continent that could set just about every language and script in
commercial use worldwide -- and then the computer geniuses got to work and made it
easy for everyone to do on a cheap little computer.
It was great fun being one of the few people who could sit down and
actually typeset in such scripts as Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Thai, etc.
when nobody else could.
-- Dick
In a message dated 4/13/2010 1:43:58 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
chuck (AT) tdi (DOT) ca writes:
Since Windows XP Notepad has had the capability of using more than just
ANSI characters, which can cause interesting effects. See the URL below for
the basic overview:
_http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en
-us/win_notepad_utf_description.mspx?mfr=true_
(http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/win_notepad_utf_descripti
on.mspx?mfr=true)
The term big-endian, one of the types of what we used to refer to as byte
sex, explains why some characters, if they are more than a byte long, may
be mangled in Windows/Mac or Mac/Windows transport.
--
To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.