Subj : How to enter Unicode characters in Windows
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Sergey Dorofeev
Date : Fri Apr 24 2015 23:18:55

Hello Michiel,

orig.message to echo UTF-8 on 24 Apr 15  13:46:37
 SD>> - they can be setup to show in on-screen keyboard most-needed symbols
 SD>> to enter them seamlesly.
 MV> It is the exotic seldom used characters that are a prpblem. For "most"
 MV> used characters one can load a keyboard driver. i have a keyboard that is
 MV> labelled for US ASCII and Cyrillic. I have installed Russian in the
 MV> Windows set up and I can switch between ASCII and Cyrillic with hot key.
 MV> Presumably you ahve a similar set up.
 MV> The character encoding and keyboard labelling are two entirely different
 MV> things.

Sometimes number of keys in not enough.
I know in book editing job they input special symbols that are not included in any layout. So they use printed paper with Alt+ codes.
I do not think it is convenient. Of course all these symbols are encountered relatively rare compared to standard alphabet letters so hassle is not very big.

And sometimes I do not understand why all these shit are included in UNICODE table - digits of different kinds, digits in circles, digit in sqaure, all the fucking emojies... I thought that UNICODE is way to represent all alphabets, but currently it stands to be font abuser.

Sergey

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