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From: dcarpent@sjuphil.uucp (D. Carpenter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Non-English support
Keywords: missing diacriticals?
Message-ID: <1989Dec19.153747.283@sjuphil.uucp>
Date: 19 Dec 89 15:37:47 GMT
References: <130053@gore.com> <7762@portia.Stanford.EDU> <12306@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: dcarpent@sjuphil.UUCP (D. Carpenter)
Organization: Saint Joseph's University
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In article <12306@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> nmk@cucumber.Princeton.EDU (Nick Katz) writes:
>According to the User's Reference for 1.0, pages 415 and 416, all the 
>diacriticals one needs in typing French are right there in "all" the
>standard font families, e.g., Times and Helvetica. What's the problem?

The problem is that you CAN'T USE THEM.  I quote from p. 416:  "The
accent mark should appear above or below the character when displayed or
printed, BUT IT WILL APPEAR NEXT TO THE CHARACTER INSTEAD IN
APPLICATIONS THAT DON'T SUPPORT THIS FEATURE YET," i.e., the
applications on the NeXT, like WriteNow, Edit . . .  The lack of 
diacritics IS a problem, and it is a serious one for many of us.  It
should be remedied ASAP.


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