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Creating Foreign Language Texts with Windows 2000/ 2003/ XP (TX2)
1 Introduction
Use of diacritical characters
A diacritical character is used
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to designate the combined character (e.g. Ģ = G cedilla, Õ = O tilde),
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for the combined input if there is no separate key that possesses the required
combined character (see Section 3.4: Using a different keyboard layout),
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in Vietnamese and Thai for normal coding in text files,
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for output (only in typographically compound texts): Diacritical characters and
basic letter are output separately, whereby any combinations are possible, e.g.
for ancient languages and phonetics.
In all the other cases, the combined letter is always considered as a compound
unit.
In some cases, however, the combined letter is incorrectly referred to as the
diacritical character.
Input Method Editor (IME)
An aid for entering the CJK characters (CJK: Abbreviation for Chinese, Japanese
and Korean).
Language family
A language family is a group of languages which uses the same code page. This
requires the use of the same basic alphabet (e.g. Latin or Cyrillic), but it does not
mean that the alphabet of all languages of this group is the same.
There is a 1:1 assignment between Windows code page and language family.
Section 1.3 (Language family) contains a list of the language families in Table 1-1.
Font files (TrueType fonts)
Windows 2000/ 2003 and Windows XP do not use font files stored separated by
the code page, but instead so-called "Big Fonts"; these are fonts that contain the
character set for several code pages, saving memory capacity for the common
characters.
With Word 2000/ 2003, the selection of characters from this total character set is
performed via the Unicode coding, not via the code page coding. This makes it
impossible to mix up characters with the same code in different code pages.
Default language
The term "default language" is used in this guide for the language of the operating
system, i.e. German for a German Windows environment and English for an
English Windows environment.
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