Doesn't Matter wrote:
> Greetings
> I would like my Polish wife to translate some of my web pages
> into Polish. If we get a Slavonic layout keyboard from Poland
> and plug it in here (UK) provided we change the windows
> keyboard paramaters and set the char-set code to UTF - 8
You using either Win2K or XP? They have Unicode support, so you should have
everything you need. I can't find where the support is... but it should be
there. Input support and code page conversion are obviously two very
different things, one requires an internal representation at 16bits, the
other just requires a 16bit to 8 bit mapping with internal 8bit
representation - I can find the code page conversion, but not the input
support.
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/handson/user/2kintlsupp.mspx" target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/handson/user/2kintlsupp.mspx</a>
Thats how you do it. It's not in the Keyboard Control Panel (makes sense
when you think about it)
> wil what she types into a text editor using the slavonic keyboard,
> when cut and pasted into an html document, come out
> correctly without having to hex the special characters.
I'm not sure... if you define your charset as UTF-8 in the HTML, you should
be ok. The OS has support, and decent web servers should too. Now, I don't
know how plain text files work under unicode environments, presumably it's
just 16bit chars instead of 8bit chars.
I've never tried it so I don't know what kind of support there is... to be
fair unicode is hardly a new thing so you should be ok. In terms of support
for reading the pages on other machines, you should be ok. Netscape 4 might
have a heart attack, but anybody using it should give up and install
FireBird (or Opera, or just use IE)
If it were me I'd just try it and see what happens - if it doesn't work
straight off, somebody here will get it working. Your biggest problem will
likely be the machine hosting your website as you have least control over
it.
> Secondly (you can tell I am a newbie!!) I have a new logitech
> usb keyboard that works just fine until one goes into dos mode
> or dos at startup, then keystrokes do not register. Is this a
> 'feature' of an usb keyboard?
Kind of, DOS does not support USB directly.
Enable Legacy Keyboard support in the BIOS, that should make things work
nicely.
> Sorry if this is incorrectly posted to the wrong group
Nah, thats cool... it's a quiet group though... if you can find a regional
windows group you may find a greater response.
Ben
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