Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
in the meantime, my viewer-tool will actually _display_ all those accented characters, even when they are not present in the e-text, if the user chooses that option.
Balderdash. You think you can sneak by using a word list? Then tell me how your forever-announced reader program is going to distinguish between the Italian words: e (meaning: and) é (meaning: is) Now put the accents back: La grappa e buona e la carne e cattiva. Don't be irritated by the fact that you don't understand the text. Your program also has to put the accents back without understanding the text.
if you want to help with that, create a list of such accented words.
Get ispell or aspell or any other open-source spellchecker. They all have multilingual wordlists included.
michael's philosophy of having the e-texts work on all machines, specifically including trailing-edge machinery, is _the_ factor that has made his e-library the premier one in all of cyberspace,
Prove this assertion.
as to my tools in particular, they will support unicode fully, long before unicode works with all the other tools out there, so you're barking up the wrong tree, buster.
Your tools so far supported only your endless blabbing about them, buster. They never even got so mature as to print the greeting screen without crashing. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org