On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:50:06 -0000, Dave Crossland <dave@...1555...> wrote:
2009/1/30 Thomas Worthington <thomas@...2129...>:
On thing that would help me as a user would be a "Special Character" dialogue which allows one to view and select the characters from fonts that don't easily map to the keyboard. With large fonts this would be very helpful; even with small "extras" fonts it would be a fair time-saver.
I wish I had the time to do it myself, but if people are taking suggestions, then that's mine.
Shouldn't this happen at the desktop environment/OS level?
It's certainly arguable, but when working with adverts and logos it is such a common issue that it might be handy to have it integrated. I did use to find the windows one quite fiddly when handling complex fonts (eg, arabic) but I've not used Windows in so long I don't know if it's got better in this regard.