Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!purdue!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!macman From: macman@ethz.UUCP (Danny Schwendener) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: French Font needed Summary: there are no french fonts. Keywords: international french font keyboard map resource Message-ID: <619@ethz.UUCP> Date: 20 Sep 88 21:02:31 GMT References: <9214@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: macman@ethz.UUCP (Danny Schwendener) Organization: ETH Zuerich, Switzerland Lines: 34 >I have a fellow worker who recently came to the states from France. He is >using a Mac and asked me (the resident Mac expert) for a French font so his >punctuation would be correct when he writes to our French office. Bob, We all use the same Macintosh fonts, wherever we live (well almost, I apologize to the japanese readers of this message). The standard fonts all have accented characters included for all germanic, roman and celtic languages, including French. What changes is the presence of foreign KCHR resources in the system file, which remaps the keyboard for a specific country. The US version of the System contains only the resource for the american keyboard. The french system contains a french KCHR resource as well as the american one. In Switzerland, where we speak french, german and italian, there are four KCHR resources. You can select the keybard layout you wish to use by selecting it with the Keyboard CDEV in the Control Panel, provided that the corresponding KCHR is present in the System file. There's no need to reboot, as it was the case in older versions of the System. Apple has done a very nice job here. My compliments. I'm afraid I cannot send you a French KCHR, as the Swiss french "QWERTZ" keyboard layout is different from the french "AZERTY". However, someone in France can surely help you. -- Danny +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Mail : Danny Schwendener, ETH Macintosh Support Center | | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH-8092 Zuerich | | Bitnet : macman@czheth5a UUCP : {cernvax,mcvax}ethz!macman | | Ean : macman@ifi.ethz.ch Voice : yodel three times | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+