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Posted by bluebowling on 09/27/03 11:52
Nikita the Spider wrote:
> 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/
> Bulk HTML validation, link checking and more
Thank you both for your detailed replies. Something is coming
through the fog but it's still over my head. I will try to look up some
of these concepts and at worst I will take the information to somebody
who will understand it in an instant and give me a lesson on it! I used
to type in French characters using combinations on the keyboard and
that was in Wordperfect!!! So I see that I would be able to cut and
paste individual characters but this man wants to be able to type in
Polish and in English on his computer -- and I want to be able to
upload readable Polish pages. For typing in Polish and English I
understand that somehow you tell your computer that now you are typing
in Polish and then when you're finished you change back to English.
Well, it's late and I have to think about this. I have hope. Thanks
again.
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