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Philip:
A friend of mine forwarded to me your letter re problems you have
encountered dealing with some Polish and Eastern European chracters.
problem with the keyboard driver for the fontset you have been using. As
you certainly know, in Windows 95 you have to decide what languages you
want to use during the setup of the OS. You can always change it by going
to the Control Panel and in the Add/Remove Program clicking on Windows
Setup tab. There click on the Multilanguage Support and pick the right
language. Windows 95 will ask you to insert the installation disk of win
95. Follow the instructions and you will have the right fonts loaded.
The second step is to load the proper keyboard driver. Again, in the
control panel go to the Keyboard, then click on the Language tab and if you
can't see Polish or any keyboard of your choice, click on the Add button
and pick the language. Pick also the key combination for switching
languages (my favorite is Ctrl+Shift). After you make these changes active
(after rebooting), you should see a small icon on the taskbar saying either
En or Pl or whatever language you choose. Use your switching key
combination to jump from one to another.
While changing the language, e.g. in Word for Windows, switch the keyboard
AND the proper font in the application.
You certainly know all the above. However, Windows 95 is a capritious OS,
so sometimes it is necessary to repeat these steps to assure proper working
of these settings. I experienced a lot of problems with Code Page 12 50
when I first installed Windows 95 on a 386 machine. Currently, I experience
no problems at all.
As your problem is concerned I would strongly recommend that you repeat the
language setup procedure. If it still doesn't work, I would suggest
contacting Microsoft and getting a new copy of the keyboard drivers for
your Win 95.
For small projects, if the keyborad driver is bad and the CP 1250 is
loaded, one can type the 0(zero)+ANSI code on the keypad while holding ALT
key to get any character. This is, however, not a permanent solution.
I hope you will fix the problem soon, and complete your project successfully.
Zenon Obydzinski
zeno@mbay.net
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On May 30, 1997, you wrote:
Date sent: Fri, 30 May 1997 15:14:58 +0200
Send reply to: "ACADEMIC INITIATIVE IBM ,
PROJECT \"LIBRARY SYSTEMS\" AIBIBL" <AIBIBL@PLEARN.EDU.PL>
From: Ewa Jankowska <ewa%NYPLGATE.NYPL.ORG@PLEARN.EDU.PL>
Subject: pomoc???
To: Multiple recipients of list AIBIBL <AIBIBL@PLEARN.EDU.PL>
I am working on the development of multilingual concordancing, and
building up sample parallel texts in various languages, including
Polish. I have come across a problem in using Windows 95 for Polish,
and wonder if anyone else has had the same experience or possibly
found an answer.
In scanning a Polish text onto a PC running under Windows 95, I found
that one character, the s-with-acute-accent (ANSI 156, in its
lower-case form), consistently failed to
show on screen, whether we were using the OCR package or a
wordprocessor. Transferring the textfile to a machine running under
Windows 3.11, the character showed up. I have checked this further
by printing off character maps of the same font as it appears in
Windows 95 and windows 3.11 (we copied the font
acroos onto the new machine from the old one), and it is clear that
most characters between 130 and 159 ANSI are being blocked in Windows
95. Many of these characters are punctuation, but some are s's, t's
and z's with various diacritics.
Further checking shows that Windows 95 appears to be blocking
generally non alphanumeric characters in the 128-159 range in other
fonts (Cyrillic, Greek, turkish) which are available under Windows
3.11.
Has anyone got any leads on this problem? I will post a summary of
replies.
Philip King
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