--- Forwarded Message from Jim Donley <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 08:50:37 -0600 >To: [log in to unmask] >From: Jim Donley <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Would appreciate a hand with this... >Cc: [log in to unmask] I'm trying to help the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures here at Northwestern University with some usability problems. We are currently focusing on a Mac with OS 9 that has the Cyrillic Language Kit installed. We have been using Latinskij (unicode) as the primary font. The email client is Eudora 5.1 and email is being sent between the Mac and computers which do not use an English OS or a roman keyboard. We've used a variety of versions of Communicator and IE for web browsing. Problems that we are currently experiencing: 1. When receiving email, Non-roman characters do not show up properly. They may appear as a blank space, an underline, a box or other "special" character. 2. When sending email, the recipient does not always receive what appeared on the screen of the Mac that the message originated on. 3. When viewing slavic websites, with both Communicater and IE, the text is not properly displayed and has symptoms similar to Eudora. 4. Cannot copy text from slavic websites and paste into Word or Eudora. One of my peers indicated that these problems exist under OS X as well. The end result that we are looking for is full support of Cyrillic and, if possible, Central European text in email, MS Office and browsing while using a homophonic keyboard. We would prefer to have a solution that relies on unicode fonts. We are not opposed to migrating to OS X if it provides the best solution. Thank you for any assistance you may be able to provide. jd