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From: "Rod Moulding" <>
Subject: Re: [FHU] Using the Character Map
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:00:41 -0000
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Clive -

This subject has come up before. You'll find you cannot use anything
outside the ASCII Decimal character set. I have had the same problem in
V3.1.2 for some time (and nothing's changed), trying to represent Polish and
Lithuanian personal and (more particularly) place names. You can't even get
round it by using cut-n-paste from elsewhere e.g. Word. Regrettably this
diminishes the appeal of FH in those markets where more exotic diacritical
marks are needed, including the USA where so many people have Central or
Eastern European forebears. I'm not aware that the situation changes with
V5 - or am I wrong?

Rod Moulding

-----Original Message-----
From:
[mailto:] On Behalf Of Clive
Spratt
Sent: 13 March 2012 17:12
To:
Subject: Re: [FHU] Using the Character Map

Thank you Jane & Shelagh,

In FH Version 4.1.3 using Arial Unicode, Windows Central European or Windows
Western with copy and paste from the Character Map the characters appear
correctly in the Property Box, but the underlying Diagram does not update
correctly. If a Diagram is not open then the Records Window does not
update. When the property Box is closed and reopened the characters have
reverted to plain characters without the Accent, Caron, Cedilla, or Ogonek.
Characters with the Diaeresis (Diacritical, sometimes called the Umlaut)
work fine. Help please.

Clive Spratt

-----Original Message-----
From:
[mailto:] On Behalf Of Jane
Taubman
Sent: 12 March 2012 20:42
To:
Subject: Re: [FHU] Using the Character Map

In order to support those, you will need to ensure the font you are using
includes them.

So something like Arial with Central European selected should do them.

On 12 March 2012 20:19, Clive Spratt <> wrote:
> I have been entering some Polish families, but am struggling with
> entering characters from the Windows Character Map.  According to the
> Knowledge
Base
> the characters should be useable.

> I need the following characters; ą Ą ä Ä  ń Ń  Ś ż.   The following
> are fine, ó Ó
>
> Has anyone any experience of using the Character Map facility?


--
Jane.

Jane Taubman | www.rjt.org.uk | www.taubman.org.uk |www.fhug.org.uk


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