moreno@cs.umn.edu (Andres Moreno) (12/17/90)
I am in the process of buying a new computer. I want a *cheap* and nice system that supports international word processing. In the Mac, they have a logical to do foreign characters. The manual for WfW shows a way to do it via the Alt+<ASCII CODE>. I much prefer to have some sort of system like the Mac for producing foreign characters. One could always write a macro, but then what do you do if you want to have sharp, grave and carat accents on your vowels? I think I am leaning towards getting a PC with Windows, but it bothers me that getting foreign characters in WfW is so crude. (BTW, how does one get Windows to produce foreign characters for file names, folders, etc?) Thanks, Andres
cddukes@eos.ncsu.edu (CHRISTOPHER D DUKES) (12/17/90)
I do not know which language you are planning to use, but there are foreign keyboard drivers for most nations and all that one must do is fiddle with the internation section of the control panel. I do not know how well this workds with windows, but i do know that the drivers supplied with msdos worked well enough for my texteditor during my german class last year. -- cddukes@eos.ncsu.edu *OR* cddukes@eceugs.ece.ncsu.edu Chris.Dukes@f100.n151.z1.fidonet.org Phone Boam... Phone Boam. MD Phone Boam. (and for more insanity....)