Subj : How to enter Unicode characters in Windows
To   : Sergey Dorofeev
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Fri Apr 24 2015 13:46:37

Hello Sergey,

On Friday April 24 2015 12:14, you wrote to me:

 MV>> To get the Dutch ij ligature on your screen type Alt +0133. ij
 MV>> If it does not work, you need to change a setting in the
 MV>> registry: Under HKEY_Current_User/Control Panel/Input Method, set
 MV>> EnableHexNumpad to "1". If you have to add it, set the type to be
 MV>> REG_SZ.
 MV>> Source:
 MV>> http://www.fileformat.info/tip/microsoft/enter_unicode.htm

 SD> It seems that best fitted for unicode are touch-screen devices

Touch screen are good for entering a limited amount of data. For typing a substantial amount of text, they are less suitable. I prefer a "real" keyboard for that.

 SD>  - they can be setup to show in on-screen keyboard most-needed symbols
 SD> to enter them seamlesly.

It is the exotic seldom used characters that are a prpblem. For "most" used characters one can load a keyboard driver. i have a keyboard that is labelled for US ASCII and Cyrillic. I have installed Russian in the Windows set up and I can switch between ASCII and Cyrillic with hot key. Presumably you ahve a similar set up.

The character encoding and keyboard labelling are two entirely different things.


Cheers, Michiel

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