[Xerte] Re: Special characters in XOT

[Patrick Lockley]

That's probably a google question - am guessing it comes with windows?

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Simon Barne
Sent: 05 April 2011 10:22
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Special characters in XOT

Do most computers have Arial Unicode installed? If I change the font
in the Xerte player to Arial Unicode or Lucida Sans Unicode,
everything appears correctly. It would just mean telling the user to
do this.


On 5 April 2011 09:50, Patrick Lockley <Patrick.Lockley at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> Can you hardcode the glyphs into a swf and load them into a XOT piece?
>
> That’s not a question to you, more a too the list thought out load
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Simon Barne
> Sent: 05 April 2011 09:32
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> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Special characters in XOT
>
> But all the characters appear normally in emails, web pages, etc...
>
>
> On 5 April 2011 08:16, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>> you'll need a font with the characters in it on the end user's system.
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Simon Barne [simonbarne at gmail.com]
>> Sent: 04 April 2011 17:55
>> To: 'Xerte discussion list'
>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Special characters in XOT
>>
>> Thank you both for your help. Some characters appear OK after pasting - e.g. ŋæəθð - but most - e.g. ʌʊɪʃʒʤʧɒʤʧ - appear only as little empty squares.
>>
>> Paul's line works fine in desktop Xerte but not in Toolkits, where it appears as code, with the curly brackets showing, etc.
>>
>> Any more ideas?
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
>> Sent: 04 April 2011 5:09 PM
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>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Special characters in XOT
>>
>> If you can copy and apste the caharcetr from somewhere, it should work:
>>
>> Try this one:
>>
>> (c)
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Simon Barne
>> Sent: 04 April 2011 17:08
>> To: 'Xerte discussion list'
>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Special characters in XOT
>>
>> None of these methods seem to work, I'm afraid. It is Toolkits I am using.
>> Is that the reason?
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Paul Swanson
>> Sent: 04 April 2011 4:36 PM
>> To: Xerte discussion list
>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Special characters in XOT
>>
>> It's got to be in an expression, I think:
>>
>> {'Here is some plain text with this \u2192 Unicode in it.'}
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-
>>> bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
>>> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 8:15 AM
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>>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Special characters in XOT
>>>
>>> Or paste in the character itself from somewhere?
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-
>>> bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
>>> Sent: 04 April 2011 15:59
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>>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Special characters in XOT
>>>
>>> Dunno it ought to work. Try escaping the \ like \\u
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-
>>> bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Simon Barne
>>> Sent: 04 April 2011 15:51
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>>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Special characters in XOT
>>>
>>> If I put that in a XOT text box, I just get \uAABBCCDD. Something
>>> you're not telling me?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 4 April 2011 15:00, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>
>>> wrote:
>>> > They should work, yes, \uAABBCCDD
>>> >
>>> > ?
>>> >
>>> > -----Original Message-----
>>> > From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-
>>> bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Simon Barne
>>> > Sent: 04 April 2011 11:34
>>> > To: xerte
>>> > Subject: [Xerte] Special characters in XOT
>>> >
>>> > Is there any way of using special (Unicode?) characters in Xerte? I
>>> > would like to use the IPA symbols for transcribing pronunciation,
>>> such
>>> > as the schwa.
>>> >
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