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| John A Rea |
 Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 5:43 pm |
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G. Leo Sahakian wrote:
[quote:39f8bad682]"John A Rea" <j.rea2@insightbb.com> a écrit dans le message de
news: 42742982.6040200@insightbb.com...
G. Leo Sahakian wrote:
"John A Rea" <j.rea2@insightbb.com> a écrit dans le message de
news: UDWae.13209$WI3.378@attbi_s71...
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since you have
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
why don't you write ã instead of a~ ? this is a portuguese
letter
and ISO-8859-1 has everything needed for pt., es., fr., de.,
is.,
sv., da., no., fi., etc.
I haven't the slightest idea what these preceding lines say:
to put it as simply as possible, ISO-8859-1, also called Latin-1,
is the standard character set used for
engl. and (other) west. europ. languages; since your operating
system is windows xp, you can look up the character map (to open
it: start/run/charmap/enter, or start/programs/accessories/system
tools/char. map; these designation are perhaps not all correct
because my windows is not an english version and I don't know all
the correct names), choose an installed font (e.g. arial), then
from the "char. set" drop-down list choose "windows western
europe"; this opens for you the latin-1 set; in the chars. field
you see all the chracters you can copy and paste into your text,
including e.g. ã.
it is of course easier to type the chars. directly on the keyboard
depending on your actual keyboard; now if your ~ (tilde) key is a
dead key (type a "~": if the ~ appears and the cursor moves
forward, then it is not a dead key), nothing happens when you type
the ~, but when you type the next char., then both appear; if the
~ can combine with the next char., you get ã, õ, ñ; otherwise you
get ~ (if next char. is space), or ~q, ~e or whatever; you can
change the kbd layout (i.e. which char. is displayed when you hit
each key): en-US, en-UK, en-US international (this provides dead
keys for ~ and accents: grave, umlaut etc.), fr, pt-PT, pt-BR
etc.; to do this go to "control panel"/"regional and language
options"/languages tab/details botton: in the dialog box that
opens choose the left tab, then "add": a new dialog box opens with
2 drop- down lists; in the 1st you choose a language and if
necessary a country, e.g. en-UK, in the 2nd you choose the
keyboaed layout, e.g. en-UK extended.
for full details see e.g. Windows Keyboard Layouts at
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/keyboards.aspx
sorry for the long delay in answering; I don't even know if you
are at all interested by all this; at any rate it's done.
Sorry: you lost me early in your message. I had mistakenly thought[/quote:39f8bad682]
that this newsgroup placed technicalities of language to the fore
front, not "computerese". Perhaps it's time for me to drop out,
and select a different newsgroup more slanted to linguistic
matters.
Jack
[quote:39f8bad682]regards,
G. Leo Sahakian
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Be kind to animals; they owe you nothing. Let them live in peace,
unless your life is at risk.
http://www.pour-les-animaux.de/.
Jack
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| Peter T. Daniels |
| Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 9:15 pm |
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John A Rea wrote:
[quote:a5eede5274]Sorry: you lost me early in your message. I had mistakenly thought
that this newsgroup placed technicalities of language to the fore
front, not "computerese". Perhaps it's time for me to drop out,
and select a different newsgroup more slanted to linguistic
matters.
[/quote:a5eede5274]
Or, you could simply ignore GLS.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@att.net |
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