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Welsh language - ISO-8859-1 or Unicode ? Simon 06-24-2008
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Posted by Rik Wasmus on June 26, 2008, 2:08 am
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 On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:48:14 +0200, Dr J R Stockton

> In comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html message <kv6dnRvtYfLOa_zVnZ2dnUVZ
> 8hednZ2d@posted.plusnet>, Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:40:03, anahata
>>
>> Oh, and I have encountered the need for a w with circumflex, but that
>> was
>> an old song title so it might have been an archaic Welsh form.
>
> A search for "Welsh Water" rapidly locates <http://www.welshwater.com/>,
> in the foot of which is "Dwr Cymru Cyf 2008." Copy'n'paste into here
> has not reproduced the circumflex over the w;

Hmmm. I would find that hard to believe (probably just a newsreader
thing), just a test (UTF-8 posting):
Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water
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Posted by Rik Wasmus on June 26, 2008, 2:09 am
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 On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:08:36 +0200, Rik Wasmus
> just a test (UTF-8 posting):
> Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water

Well, at least here it's clearly there :)
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Posted by Dr J R Stockton on June 26, 2008, 2:39 pm
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>> A search for "Welsh Water" rapidly locates <http://www.welshwater.com/>,
>> in the foot of which is "Dwr Cymru Cyf 2008." Copy'n'paste into here
>> has not reproduced the circumflex over the w;
>
>Hmmm. I would find that hard to believe (probably just a newsreader
>thing),

Then you should read my headers.

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Posted by JC on August 25, 2008, 5:26 pm
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> Dwr Cymru Cyf
> Dwr Cymru Welsh Water

The Windows Courier font does not seem to support UTF-8. Outlook
Express changes the font from Courier to a variety of Arial when the
Encoding settings get changed to Unicode (UTF-8).

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Posted by Andreas Prilop on August 26, 2008, 12:52 pm
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On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, JC wrote:

> The Windows Courier font does not seem to support UTF-8.

The *bitmap font* Courier, which comes with MS Windows and
which has nothing to do with other PostScript/TrueType fonts
of the same name, has a *very* restricted character repertoire.
You should use Courier New (TrueType) instead.

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