Re: unicode

["Geoffrey S. Nathan" <geoffn@nospam.siu.edu>]

At 09:09 AM 8/22/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>1. Will NBW have in its 'Insert' file anytime soon the symbol for the Euro?
>The Pound and the Yen symbols are there already.  But the Euro, in fact,
>is now a money of account and will be cash money in one's pocket in five
>months.  Cashier's receipts in shops, bars and supermarkets already indicate
>the price of items in the Euro, along with the price in the local currency.
>I know that academics are not supposed to hve much to do with mere money,
>but ... .

On my version of Lingua Plus you can type F5, E and get the Euro symbol.  I 
don't know if this is also available in NBW.


>2. A few years ago I made a suggestion, through an intermediary, to the
>UNICODE people to the effect that a selection of the standard European
>manuscript abbreviations, as used in medieval and renaissance texts, be
>included in the UNICODE list.  Do you, Steve, or does anyone else know if
>any such manuscript abbreviations were included?

The current version of Word has all the Unicode characters.  If you select 
Lucida Sans Unicode, then Insert Characters you can find an amazing list of 
things.  If you don't have access to a recent copy of Word, describe what 
the symbols look like and I can tell you if they are there...

Geoff

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