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takayama@vcom.sony.co.jp (Yoshihisa Takayama) writes:
>I wrote down my article in French language on Apple Macintosh personal
>computer.  There  problem  is occured  when I moved to IBM-PC  with my
>article. Some characters does not appeared normally.   ^a,^i,^u,^e,^o,
>'a,'i,'u,'e,'o  for  instance.  Which  machine  use  IS (International
>Standart). And does French people have some kind of standard? 
>Please forgive my ignorance. Give me more information!

Your Apple System Software release disks should contain a program called
"Apple File Exchange" This program can convert from Apple's character set
to the character set on an IBM PC. If you are using a Mac IIcx, MacIIci, 
SE 30, or one of the new SEs, Apple File Exchange can directly write PC
compatible 3.5" disks.  You would do best converting your word processor
document to a text file, then running the text file through the converter,
though the converter probably supports some word processor document
formats.

Apple, with its Script Manager, is trying hard to support all the world's
scripts in your computer all at once. Other brands merely try to handle
one or two languages at a time. As usual, Apple's products are ahead of
the standards that the other brands are still trying to agree on, and are
not yet in compliance with.

For example, if you install the Kanji system, the Arabic system, and the
Hebrew system all at once, you should be able to get all three langauges,
plus English, French & German, on the same line all at once, using the ROM
text editor, TextEdit. The keyboard should remap as you change language
families, and you should be able to print.

I have these systems on the Developer Tools CDROM apple sent me, but since
my CD ROM drive hasn't arrived, I haven't yet given the above experiment a
try.

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