Re: [PLUG] Thunderbird questions

[Fred Stluka <fred@bristle.com>]

Alan,

> I think we should let Unicode go.  It is too big, and I need only a 
> small fraction.  Don't Germans
>           and French and Spaniards use TB?

Yes.  And they also use LibreOffice, and web browsers, and lots
of other apps and tools where they want to enter the special
chars of their languages.  I assume they use special keyboards
or set special keyboard mappings in their OS.

On my Mac, under Preferences, I can choose a variety of
keyboard mappings.  I use US English.  But there are hundreds
of other choices.  I could switch to any of them, and suddenly
the keys on my physical keyboard would generate different
characters.

I could also buy a physical keyboard that had the "glyphs" of
those chars instead of the US English ones on the key caps.  Or
could buy a separate set of keycaps to snap on.  Or an overlay
to put over the keyboard.

The reason you're having so much trouble is because you want
to type mostly US English (or whatever your preference is) and
only occasionally want to type a German, French or Spanish
char.  If you worked entirely in that other language, you'd just
set your keyboard to that mode.

So, it's not inconvenient for people who want to work in any one
language.  Only for those who want to work in a mix of languages
because there aren't enough keys on a standard keyboard to
support all of the chars of your primary language, plus a bunch
of extras.

That said, you could probably find an option or add-on
somewhere that allowed you to map unused keys like your
function keys (F1-F12, etc.) to special chars of your choosing.
I've never looked into that, but it seems like it must be out there.

Let us know if you find such a thing.  Others here may be
interested.

--Fred
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On 10/2/18 9:02 PM, Alan McConnell wrote:
> I've got a different type-face to work.  And this is different yet?  
> (Pls ignore, just an experiment)
>
>
> On 10/02/2018 05:19 PM, Fred Stluka wrote:
> > Alan,
> >
> > BTW, even if you use all ASCII (no Unicode) in your HTML, you can
> > still use the HTML-specific way to specify Unicode chars (HTML
> > "entities").  See:
> > - http://google.com/search?q=entering+unicode+chars+in+HTML
>            I think we should let Unicode go.  It is too big, and I 
> need only a small fraction. Don't Germans
>           and French and Spaniards use TB?
> > On 10/2/18 5:09 PM, Fred Stluka wrote:
> > > Alan,
> > >
> > > > Do I gather that you don't use the Linux TBird?
> > >
> > > Right.  Mac laptops, where I live in the Terminal window doing
> > > Mac OS X (BSD Unix).  And Linux servers.  No Windows, ever.
>             Maybe someone can help out who uses TB with Linux?
>
>
>
> > > Yes. I use Google.  And I own a lot of Google stock.
>                 Good heavens!  That still isn't a reason to let Google 
> make money from selling
>                 _your_ information.
> > > I hear good things about Duck Duck Go though.
>               Try it.  It has the feature that it gives pictures and 
> video returns up top, which is
>               often quite useful.
>
>
>
> > > > TeX output is (always?) either a .ps or .pdf.  The output is Just 
> > > > *beautiful! *
> > >
> > > Ah...  Makes sense!
>          I'll take a look at the your description of using html to 
> format documents tomorrow.
>
> Alan
>
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>          It is difficult to get a man to understand something when
>          his income depends on his not understanding it.
>
>
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