"Virtual Fonts"???

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I am working with Latvian and Lithuanian. My client says that i should be able to activate the "virtual fonts" on my compter such as Tahoma CE, Cyrilic, Baltic. I can not for the life of me figure this out! Anyone help????!!!!
 
dannie said:
I am working with Latvian and Lithuanian.
My client says that i should be able to activate the "virtual fonts"
on my compter such as Tahoma CE, Cyrilic, Baltic.
I can not for the life of me figure this out! Anyone help????!!!!
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They are _already_ active under XP. They are 'activated'
by switching _keyboard_ to say Russian. Here are the
details:

Nowadays standard Windows fonts are _large Multilingual_
Unicode fonts. For example, Arial.ttf contains A LOT
of different alphabets - Baltic, Western European, Cyrillic,
CE, etc. You can see what alphabets a font contains by
installing a free MS utility
http://www.microsoft.com/truetype/property/property.htm -
then with right-mouse click on a font file go to Proprerties
and look at Charset tab.

With that new functionality the *typing* procedure _has changed_,
see the explanation at the end of the Keyboard section of my site,
here is the direct link:
http://RusWin.net/kbd_e.htm#uni


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Regards,
Paul Gorodyansky
"Cyrillic (Russian): instructions for Windows and Internet":
http://RusWin.net
Russian On-screen Keyboard: http://Kbd.RusWin.net
 
Thank you for this information....if i am not actually the one "typing" the extended langauges (we have translators that supply the translations in a Word format and I just need to review them and make sure that I am looking at something correct) do i still need to install the keyboard?

Thanks again!
 
dannie said:
Thank you for this information....
if i am not actually the one "typing" the extended langauges
(we have translators that supply the translations in a Word
format and I just need to review them and make sure that I am looking at
something correct) do i still need to install the keyboard?
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No, not at all. Even say under Japanese Windows XP :)
I can - without any tune-up:
- see normally Russian text in a Word document
- see normally Russian text on a Russian Web site

because as I wrote earlier, the _fonts_ are there already.
Fonts are responsible for *reading*.
Keyboard tools - for *writing*.

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Regards,
Paul Gorodyansky
"Cyrillic (Russian): instructions for Windows and Internet":
http://RusWin.net
Russian On-screen Keyboard: http://Kbd.RusWin.net
 
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