[SWLUG] Welsh letters

[Jim Killock]

On Thursday, December 12, 2002, at 10:18  am, Davage, Marcus wrote:

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> This is probably a no-brainer, but I haven't used my home computer
> (dual boot) in a while, let alone Linux, but I do remember editing an
> welsh file created in Window$ with the unicode letters for w^ and y^
> in it, and not being able to display those letters satisfactorily in
> Linux.
>
> Is there a way I can get the welsh circumflexed letters in
> Linux-written documents? I'll use any editor you like to get them!
> Star Office 5.x, Kword, anything!

Mozilla supports ISO-8859-14, the 'Celtic' 8 bit charset

You can write emails and html and text in that (Mozilla composer?) I do  
mean to try this sometime.

You may have problems displaying the text file in anything else;  
basically it needs to support either Unicode, UTF-8 or ISO-8859-14.

Jim


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> Marcus Davage
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