Subj : How to enter Unicode characters in Windows
To   : Sergey Dorofeev
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Thu Apr 30 2015 00:48:07

Hello Sergey,

On Monday April 27 2015 22:49, you wrote to me:

 MV>> Then there is no other way than to just enterthe code manually...

 SD> Keyboard layout can be modified in driver at last. But there is
 SD> another problem - location for mu, pi or ss can be easily guessed, but
 SD> if there is no such clear consonance we need to make some memo to
 SD> remember where it is - separate paper or sticker for keyboard key.

They all have drawbacks. Notes get lost and there is a limit to how many lables can be put on one key. At three it already gets crowded.

 SD> I offer to consider on-screen keyboard as software replacement for
 SD> such note. And "Character map" as ultimate replacement of keyboard in
 SD> aspect of its unusability :)

Not always practical either. Especially on small screens, like a tablet or smart phone screen.

 MV>> The idea was to cover all characters in use. Past and present. It
 MV>> does indeed seem an overkill. OTOH, it does not bother me. I just
 MV>> use what I need.

 SD> I'd prefered that all these strange symbols was drawed as embedded SVG
 SD> for example. Becouse if I do not have sufficiently fresh and complete
 SD> font I see only square with four hexadecimal digits. Moreover all the
 SD> text can be represented as SVG but it will be horror for full-text
 SD> search indexers :)

Indeed. Text should be text and not graphics....


Cheers, Michiel

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