Re: German character support - IIGS

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Deacon Blue wrote:
 
>Hello!                                               
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>I am searching for a method to let my IIGS write foreign characters, type
>German special keys like v, d etc.  I am using the System 6.0.1 as >delivered originally on a Focus Harddrive.  
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>I am somehow not able to switch the IIGS into supporting Danish or German
>typefonts.   This only takes effect in 8-bit modes,  but not efficiently   
>with System 6.0.1.                                                                     
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>One inefficient method to press  special 'option-key' combinations, which >is a nightmare if the intention is to do some useful wordprocessing.                                  
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>Do I need some other font-files to do the job?   Any help or tip on how >this is done is highly appreciated!                     
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>Best regards                                         
 
Several years ago someone was asking the same question about Russian characters.  Our GSAUG disk library had cyrillic in True Type fonts. I did some research on the internet and found several places where there were other TT fonts related to cyrillic (ie Bukinest and Constantin) for the Mac.  I'm sure there must be German as well.  These were usuable with Pointless under GSOS 6.0.1.  
 
I used Typewest to print out the keystrokes for the characters.  
     
Sandy   GS SIG librarian