Re: French-English Dictionary? French accents (fwd from:hchoong@cyberway.com.sg)
Corne Beerse (beerse@ats.nld.alcatel.nl)
Mon, 14 Jul 1997 13:06:09 +0200
Glen Wilson wrote:
> Hi, I recently can across a listing of 4000 or so french words with
> English equivalents and tried to make a database out of them but ran
> into a few problems. The some of the french words have french accents
> on several letters, these we in the original text file but when I
> imported them into a database the accents were all lost, I tried
> changing the characters back to the original in some cases but the
> Omnigo character set doesn't seem to support some of them such as [ימ]
> (I hope they come out OK).
e with ' and i with ^ (and loths of others) are supported on my OGO
(which is EuroEnglish).
Accent Keypress (followed by required base character)
' <fn><r>
` <fn><t>
^ <fn><y>
" <fn><u>
~ <fn><i>
0 <fn><x>
Other special characters:
reversed ! <fn><1>
L (pound) <fn><3>
reversed ? <fn><8>
slanted o <fn><o>
B (German) <fn><s>
crossed o <fn><g>
ae <fn><k>
ao <fn><l>
c, <fn><c>
paragraph <fn><v>
o" <fn><,>
a" <fn><.>
See grafity for even more accents and characters. Insert them in a
little note and extract them from the ogo. See in your PC in what code
it resembles. I guess it's just the same caracter.
>
> My questions are these:-
> a/ Is it possible to select a different character set that does have
> these characters on the Omnigo?
>
> b/ If not is the French version of the Omnigo different?
As far as I know, the only difference is the keyboard.
> c/ Would it be possible to use the Bindary program to make a book that
> has these characters in it? This would probably be the way to go but
> can you search using the Book reader program?
I'm sure you can insert the codes with grafity. My ogo supports a lot
with the keyboard. Try it and you know it.
Groetjes en succes
Corne
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