Unicode Explained

UniPad

UniPad is a Unicode text editor for Windows systems. It uses its own bitmap font, so

you can use it independently of the font repertoire in your system. On the other hand,

you will not directly see which characters will work in the fonts you have. UniPad is

easy to get started with. It is free for very small scale use. It is available from the site

http://www.unipad.org.

UniPad has onscreen keyboard layouts, or “virtual keyboards,” that allow you to type

in texts according to keyboard settings that are conventional for a language. Fig-

ure 2-23 illustrates such usage. You can also modify the keyboard settings or define

your own keyboard layout for such use. Characters can also be selected from a character

map.

Exercise

Enter the following text into a document in some way discussed earlier. Create the

document in plain text format, Word format, HTML format, or something else. Here

the text is printed in large font to make it easier to recognize the characters, but you

Figure 2-20. Use of BabelPad, here using a command menu to add a character

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can use any font size you find suitable. Some characters can be difficult to identify,

since

identification may require understanding of the specific topic area, languages,

and context. On the other hand, this makes the exercise ...