Klarinet Archive - Posting 001497.txt from 2000/10

From: "David B. Niethamer" <dnietham@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Umlauts, etc.
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 22:19:10 -0500

on 10/30/00 8:38 AM, Richard Bush wrote:

>Diacritical marks are quite easy to use on a Mac. Using an Apple menu
>item called "Key Caps" I can see all the options available in lower case
>and caps that come into play when pressing the option button.

...and in fact there's an even easier option. There's a piece of
shareware called "PopChar" which will give you the option of locating a
small icon in your menu bar which, when clicked, opens a window which
will show you all the characters available in your current font. If you
stop your pointer over the selected character, PopChar shows you the key
combination. If you release the mouse button, it inserts the character at
the insertion point in your document. there's a free version, and a pay
version with more bells and whistles. I don't know if there's a Widoze
version.

One problem with these characters is that some servers aren't capable of
handling the upper ASCII characters, and do funny things to the text of
the email. It's been the subject of discussion on a few computer lists
that I read. Evidently your mail only has to pass through one of these
servers to corrupt the text. It's just a small problem, but it can be
pretty annoying.

David

David Niethamer
Principal Clarinet, Richmond Symphony
dnietham@-----.edu
http://members.aol.com/dbnclar1/

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