TT GOES LATIN!

maz, I agree about the bold and underlined letters. Most French/Spanish letters and umlauts also worked in preview. But that's as far as it went. If that was the extent of your non-English characters, it might have seemed to you that everything showed up the way it did in preview. Any other characters would not work in preview. That includes c with a cedilla, a dotless i, anything Asian, and so on.

Basically, if you go to the Wandel site and put in a bunch of text, the things that got translated into codes would not show up. The things that were translated as themselves (ü=ü, no codes needed) would show up.

haha, that was a u with a umlaut. I got thrown off again by the fact that it showed up ok in preview.

Sorry, I meant to write "you can't use the 'plus method' to put italics at the end of a sentence." Sure, you can insert a space, but who wants a space between the last word and the question mark?

Html then, I guess.

Note that you can't use italics at the end of a sentence. Look: test?

Works with HTML
Note that you can't use italics at the end of a sentence. Look: test?

Or if you put a space after the +
Note that you can't use italics at the end of a sentence. Look: test ?

I am so upset about this!!! Being a Spanish speaker makes me feel I'm not welcome here anymore!

Let's try nutrax's suggestion: ñ, Ñ, Ç, ±, á, é, í, ó, ú

This is so frustrating!

Let me see now: &Ntilde

AAARRRGGGG!!!!!

Can someone explain this stupid guy how to write accented vowels and an n with tilde, please ?

To do those special characters, you have to put a semicolon after the &Ntilde or &oslash or whatever

ø Ñ

Mañana

mazgringo:

The old TT accepted all 256 characters of the ISO 8859-1 standard. That meant you could type all characters used in Western European languages directly into your posts. The new TT doesn't accept anything except the first 128 characters of ASCII so consequently only unaccented Latin letters. Check Wikipedia for the charts ...

The great discovery is that HTML tags work (nice one Nutrax) unlike the old TT. This makes TT4 much more powerful in at least one respect. It also means that we can enter non-ASCII text although it's going to need a bit of longhand:

• for È, type È (remove the two *s)

replace "E" by another letter, and "grave" by "acute", "circ", "uml", "tilde" or "ring" and you can make a load of letters.

It's not really practical of course. Actually, this character problem should be a very easy one to fix by the TT staff ... here's hoping they get to it quickly!

Allowing free use of HTML tags probably isn't a good idea though ... let's see if I can abuse it:
look what you can do

Edited by: boxxla

Edited by: boxxla

Oh, a semicolon... yeah, I didn't put that.

let me see: Ñandú