Foreign characters in WfW

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From: Andres Moreno
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 1990 16:06

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I am in the process of buying a new computer. I want a *cheap* and nice 
system that supports international word processing. In the Mac, they have
a logical to do foreign characters. The manual for
WfW shows a way to do it via the Alt+<ASCII CODE>. I much prefer to have
some sort of system like the Mac for producing foreign characters. One
could always write a macro, but then what do you do if you want to have
sharp, grave and carat accents on your vowels?

I think I am leaning towards getting a PC with Windows, but it bothers
me that getting foreign characters in WfW is so crude. (BTW, how does one
get Windows to produce foreign characters for file names, folders, etc?)

Thanks, Andres

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From: moreno@cs.umn.edu (Andres Moreno)
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Subject: Foreign characters in WfW
Summary: How does one get WfW to display and print foreign chars *nicely*
Keywords: spanish, french, german, etc.
Message-ID: <1990Dec16.160636.14432@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 16 Dec 90 16:06:36 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
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