>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 [éî]
>> (I hope they come out OK).
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> Any ideas??
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>You can use the French character set with the Ogo. You need to enter the
>accents with Graffiti or use the Character Map application; it will
>accept the Québec-style capitals with accents: À, Ê, etc. I do it all
>the time. Note that, if you are inputing in Windows on a PC rather than
>New Deal, Geos or DOS, Windows uses ANSI while Geos and its derivatives
>use (super?)extended ASCII. That would certainly mess up your accents.
>
>Bonne chance !
Merci beaucoup.
Do you know of an equivalent character set in Windows so importing
would be possible? Even a character map so I know the codes would be a
help (I just thought, I wonder if there is a character map showing the
code values in the manual? Worth a look I suppose. Any ideas?
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