Unicode Explained

• If you know an essential part of the Unicode name of the character, type it into the

Find box and click the Find button. Characters that match your search will appear

in the character array.

• If you wish to search by general category, select Unicode Subrange from the “Group

by” menu. This is an odd way of reaching a useful feature: an auxiliary window

will appear on the right (as in Figure 2-14), with names of character categories. By

clicking on a category name, you get that category into the character array.

• Alternatively, you can make a selection from the “Character set” menu. The default

selection is Unicode, but you can choose a set of characters that corresponds to

some widely used non-Unicode character encoding, such as Windows: Cyrillic, if

you are primarily interested in Cyrillic letters, or Windows: Turkish, if you need

to type some Turkish names.

Replacements on the Fly

A program may process your input so that it is immediately changed as you type. This

is usually based on assumptions on what people really want to type but cannot type

directly, due to keyboard limitations. Sometimes such features are very convenient,

sometimes really frustrating, if the user does not know how to override or undo their

effects.

Default Replacements in MS Word

Word processors often modify user input so that when you have typed, for example,

the three characters (c), the program changes that string, ...