[I18n-sig] P1.6a1- Win98 - unicode issues

[Andy Robinson]

> Apparently my efforts to send unicode via Juno failed.
> d.edmunds
> > ???????? ????? ??????? ? ??????????? ???????? ??????????????. ???
> > ?????
> > ??? ?????? ??????? ?? ????? ????? ?????? ?? ????????????? ??????? ?
> > ??????.
> >
I think this is a Windows feature at the moment.  Office 2000 apps, IE5 and
Outlook Express allow input and display in any language if you have the
right OS add-ons loaded.  But at the moment when you past to the clipboard
or save to a file, they get turned to question marks, presumably to avod
upsetting older apps that are not so Unicode aware.  I am told Win2000 is
better - need to try it.

It is this kind of thing that makes i18n really hard - even a simple
cut/paste can modify your data, and it is hard to know in which piece of
software things are going wrong.

For Asian languages, there is a great little freeware word processor /
lookup tool called "JWP" which lets you explicitly control the cut/paste and
save/load encodings used.

- Andy Robinson