Symbol, insert Foreign characters

[Sungat Altis]

Hi, I've Office X for the mac.

In Insert/Symbol I see such foreign characters as a "C" wih a hook
under it, or "O" with two dots on it, and the same for the "U". But, I
am missing "S" with a hook under, and capital I with a dot on it as in
lower case 'i'... Another one is 'g' with a tilde on it... This is in
my mac machine, my windows nt machine at work has all of these
characters.

These characters are in Turkish alphabet and am writing a paper,
referencing buncha Turkish authors.

How can I complete all the characters in my mac? Thank you very much!!

S. Altis

 

[Gene van Troyer]

In Insert/Symbol I see such foreign characters as a "C" wih a hook
under it, or "O" with two dots on it, and the same for the "U". But, I
am missing "S" with a hook under, and capital I with a dot on it as in
lower case 'i'... Another one is 'g' with a tilde on it... This is in
my mac machine, my windows nt machine at work has all of these
characters.

I haven't had a chance to test the Character Palette with Word X, but you
might check this. If you don have it enabled, you can go to System
Preferences > International > Languages > Input Menu tab and checl the CP
box to activate it. Also, be sure you have some Turkish fonts loaded.

In Character Palette you can check your various fonts for available accents,
diacriticals, and special characters. If you find a font that has all of the
special characters you need, and when you select them the "Insert" button
becomes active, you should be able to insert that character into your
document.

An alternative app for special characters is PopCharPro X from

http://www.macility.com

Not all Mac fonts have a complete selection of special characters,
especially older Mac fonts, which only include around 230 characters. TTF,
OTF, and PS T-1 fonts usually have more (around 1500), but these often won't
work if your app isn't unicode aware.

If you installed all of the language localization files for OSX, there are a
few basic Turkish Fonts; otherwise you should be able to find some on the
web.

Hope this helps.

Gene

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Hi,

In Insert/Symbol I see such foreign characters as a "C" wih a hook
under it, or "O" with two dots on it, and the same for the "U".

Yeah, these are also used in other languages (eg French) and are part
of the "extendedd" ASCI set"

But, I
am missing "S" with a hook under, and capital I with a dot on it as in
lower case 'i'... Another one is 'g' with a tilde on it... This is in
my mac machine, my windows nt machine at work has all of these
characters.

The information Gene gave about the character palette might help in this
regard but I suspect that these characters actually require Unicode
encoding which Word X does not support :-\


Corentin

 

[Sungat Altis]

What Corentin noted about Character Palette is correct: you may see a lot of
characters displayed that will not, unfortunately, insert into Word because
unicode is not fully supported in Office X version 10. Your best best in
this case is to locate a set of non-unicode (but World Script compatible)
fonts that handle the language for which you need to do inputting.

I find PopCharPro X to be a much speedier alternative. Of course, it may be
moot. I understand that Word 11 will implement unicode at long last.

Gene van Troyer

First of all many thanks again, to Gene and Corentin.

Yeahh, i brought up the Character Palette, it's a small (US) flag now
on the main menu (Finder), and comes back up in Word, too. But, the
"insert" does not become active. Unicode...

I shall check into PopCharPro X. Maybe this weekend when I've more time.

In the meantime, I use my Windows NT at work to write my paper.

Regards,
S. Altis

 

[Gene van Troyer]

In the meantime, I use my Windows NT at work to write my paper.

Bummer. There's a nifty little shareware word processor called Mellel which
is unicode aware and well-suited to academic work. $25.

http://www.redlex.com

Gene van Troyer

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Bummer. There's a nifty little shareware word processor called Mellel which
is unicode aware and well-suited to academic work. $25.

http://www.redlex.com

Try this instead:
http://www.redlers.com/mellel.html

Corentin