Re: Windoze questions

[dkanagy@xxxxxxxx (Dan Kanagy)]

In article <199502021419.OAA02513@xxxxxxxx>,
nsivin@xxxxxxxx (Nathan Sivin) wrote:

| I use XYDOS and WPW, but the latter only when I need Chinese input.
| WPW has some features that XYDOS doesn't, particularly the very large
| character set. It is impossible to prepare camera copy on Japan with
| XYDOS, which does not provide macrons over o and u. The HP Laserjet
| character sets do not support them either, which suggests remarkable
| naivete. But WPW prints them graphically, and on a fast printer
| (LJ4+) it doesn't take perceptibly longer.

This has also frustrated me. Why they aren't a part of the
XyWrite international character set or the standard HP symbol
sets is difficult to understand.

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