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From: cyliax@ecn.purdue.edu (Ingo Cyliax)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Scandinavic characters on NeXT
Message-ID: <1990Nov21.091216@ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 21 Nov 90 14:12:16 GMT
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When I played with 2.0 beta on a demo machine here on campus a couple
of months ago, WriteNow correctly handled the german umlauts and french
accents. The demo version of Framemaker on 1.0 also handles most of the
accent marks. We'll see if it's fixed in 2.0 for sure in a short while.

I have no idea wether the Unix will actually handle anything except the
standard ascii set for filenames etc. in 2.0.

Under 1.0, I hacked the Wn2troff program to do the correct thing with
french accent, so you can atleast generate a document with french accents
to come out on the printer. It's kind of convoluted, but should tie us over
until 2.0 comes out.

-ingo


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