Depends on the character(s). I occasionally
encounter Unicode characters in my projects, and their handling is a judgement
call. For example, I render oe-ligature as either "oe" or "[oe]".
Greek words or short phrases, I transliterate. (Lots of Greek, I
avoid.) I recently did a book that contained symbols for the
sun and planets, but the book didn't explain what the symbols meant--I had to
research which symbol meant which planet. I decided to render the symbols
as words, e.g. [Sun], [Earth], etc, figuring that would be easier on the average
reader.
PG's
posting software, as opposed to its text-checking software, can handle any
UTF8 file (text and HTML) in any language. I've posted all manner of
Greek, Chinese, Japanese, and even a couple of Tagalog
submissions.
As for
"upgrading the toolset", none of the WWers has the programming skills to upgrade
software like Gutcheck/Jeebies/Gutspell to properly handle UTF8 files, check
curly quotes, etc, etc.
Al
>If a
text file doesn't need Unicode characters, submit a Latin1 text file.
Whenever I’ve
checked, I find I have a couple chars that fall outside of
Latin1.
Do I pimp the
submission then, or god-forbid should the WW’ers upgrade their
toolset?