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yet another question from me :P
my computer isn't very good, and i'm thinking of getting a laptop to
replace it with. having suffered for 8 years with junky
constantly-freezing DOS/Windows-running computers, i'm thinking of now
getting a Mac. Do any of you have a mac (with the latest version of the
operating system)? What's your experience of its handling of unicode and
other conlang-necessary things?
I tried out a mac running OS X10.2 today at my father's workplace, and it
seemed okay. One problem though was that the Hebrew keyboard layout
didn't match up to what i'm used to - all the major letters were in the
proper Standard Israeli layout, but the diacritics were all in different
places. Also, i'm used to the "US-International" keyboard layout on my
computer now, and the 'Special Characters' or whatever they called it
layout seemed a bit confusing. I'm sure i'd eventually get used to it,
though. I also couldn't find any guide to the keyboard layouts, like a
pop-up onscreen keyboard image or anything like that.
But anyway, anyone here with a recent-OS mac? Do you get unicode emails
through the Conlang/culture lists properly? I remember hearing that
there have been problems with some non-[Modern]English characters,
especially thorn and edh, with Macs. Are those still a problem? Every
so often people send random unicode characters through here, such as
Chinese place-names, text in Russian, Hebrew or Arabic, or the Devanagari
|th| on Conlang from a few days ago. Have you been able to read them all
properly?
zhoutzíí wa'esh, (thanks) [which should have two i-acutes in it]
-Stephen (Steg)
"if that's all you will be / you'll be a waste of time"
~ from some pop-punk song my brother likes