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>Bardzo prosze o "sforwardowanie" tego listu do Philipa; nie mam dostepu do
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>Philip:
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>A friend of mine forwarded to me your letter re problems you have
>encountered dealing with some Polish and Eastern European chracters.
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>>From your description of the problem, I found that most probably this is a
>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:
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>Date sent: Fri, 30 May 1997 15:14:58 +0200
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>From: Ewa Jankowska <ewa%NYPLGATE.NYPL.ORG@PLEARN.EDU.PL>
>Subject: pomoc???
>To: Multiple recipients of list AIBIBL <AIBIBL@PLEARN.EDU.PL>
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>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.
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>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.
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>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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Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D.
President and CEO
Ergo Linguistic Technologies
2800 Woodlawn Drive, Suite 175
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808)539-3920
Fax: (808)5393924