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Posted by Nikita the Spider on 09/25/93 11:52
In article <1152388923.637730.153710@s13g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"bowler" <bluebowling@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I have very basic knowledge of html. I can do a simple web page, link
> pictures and organize, etc. just using the text program. I want to help
> a friend who is Polish do a page but I don't even know the principle of
> getting these fonts on his computer so he can type in his language. he
> doesn't have Polish font in Microsoft word either. I looked on the web
> and found programs that show various foreign language keyboards and
> sell programs but I'm afraid I just don't get the basic idea of where
> to start. If it's something extremely complicated I would try to find
> individual help. How hard can it be? Poland is full of people who write
> in Polish! Can anybody give me some pointers?
Hi bowler,
Even stinky old Windows 98 has fonts that display the Polish alphabet,
so fonts are probably not holding you back. The trick is typing them in
on your computer when you lack a Polish keyboard[1]. If you type them
directly as you would any other character using some keyboard magic or
copy & paste them into your documents, you need to be very careful about
encoding issues, as Inkster pointed out in his reply. An alternative is
to use "character entity references". That means you replace each
character that's particular to the Polish alphabet with a numeric
sequence. So you would write the informal greeting "Czesc" (with accents
over the final s and c) in HTML like this:
Cześć my friend!
That allows you to duck the encoding issues but is impractical for
anything but a trivial amount of text.
The "magic numbers" for those entities are described here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_alphabet
Other than that, I have nothing to add to Inkster's excellent reply.
Good luck!
[1] - I've been told by some Polish friends that there are no
Polish-specific keyboards. They just use European English ones with the
AltGr key and some diacriticals that one doesn't find one American
keyboards. That seemed odd to me, but what do I know?
--
Philip
http://NikitaTheSpider.com/
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