Scott, Thank you for this note on behalf of all of us for whom Shavian is
understandable and the computer a complete mystery! Dan Szczurek
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>From: Scott Harrison <scott_harrison@...>
>To: shavian@...
>Subject: Re: [shavian] Re: A Christmas Carol is ready
>Date: Wed, Jun 28, 2000, 11:57 AM
>
> In a message from Mitchell Morris <abbydohl@...>
> dated Wed, 28 Jun 2000 18:10:25 +0000, my mailer made me see:
>
> -> who come only the first 2 lines of the shavian text come out in
> -> shavian (yes i have the font you said to get) and the rest as boxes??
> -> and how does one encode text in unicode beyond the roman letters??
> ->
> -> thanks, Mitch
> ->
>
> Mitch,
>
> Assuming you are attempting to look at the UTF-8 web pages, you need to
> ensure that your browser uses the correct font for Unicode pages. The
> behavior you are getting sounds like you have selected a Shavian font with
> which to view documents, but you are not using a Unicode font since the
> Latin letters (which are the first couple of lines in the document) are the
> only things that are showing up in Shavian.
>
> What should happen is the first couple of lines should be in Latin
> letters, and the rest of the document should be in Shavian letters.
>
> Viewing the UTF-8 pages is done by (1) downloading an appropriate Unicode
> font that has both Latin and Shavian letters at their proper Unicode
> points, (2) setting your web browser to use that Unicode font for Unicode
> documents it downloads, and (3) clicking on the UTF-8 document.
>
> Viewing the Unicode document can be done in some browsers with the above
> procedure, but should probably be done with an editor that can handle
> Unicode data. On a MacOS X system you need only download and install the
> rulebook and font from my web page. On Windows I imagine you need to find
> a Unicode editor (with which I am not familiar), and have a Unicode font
> from the above procedure. As long as that Unicode font is selected in the
> editor, you should be able to open the document to see the data.
>
> Let me know more specifics about your system and I might be able to help
> you better if you need it.
>
> About encoding, I am not too sure what software you would use on your
> system (since I no nothing about it). Normally you only need an editor
> that allows Unicode entry, and then some sort of input manager that allows
> you to generate Shavian characters (in the proper Unicode range). For
> MacOS X I have all you need. However, for Windows I know nothing about the
> input management system. If someone were to point me in the right
> direction I might be able to help out and create something for everyone to
> use, but I don't have any time to search the web for the right information
> at this time. Likewise, I do not know what Unicode-capable editor one can
> use on Windows either.
>
> --
> Scott Harrison
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