Subj : How to enter Unicode characters in Windows
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Sergey Dorofeev
Date : Tue May 05 2015 22:53:58

Hello Michiel,

orig.message to echo UTF-8 on 30 Apr 15  00:48:07
 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.
 MV> They all have drawbacks. Notes get lost and there is a limit to how many
 MV> lables can be put on one key. At three it already gets crowded.

It's matter of design. I saw on ebay stickers for russian-english-hebrew, looking nice due to different colors.
If recall old times, ZX Spectrum had even BASIC keywords printed on keys.

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

On small screen we have on-screen keyboard, which have essentially same functionality (click on symbol to insert it).

 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 :)
 MV> Indeed. Text should be text and not graphics....

It looks for me as some sort of compression - we preload "font" with all the symbols then use it by reference.
But this method is good only for big corporation such as Apple - I do not know if individual can add his symbols to unicode.

Sergey

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