Looked at several apps in the alternative freeware list here. Looking for something simple to use mostly for forum posts & email, when I need special characters. Like the degrees symbol.
A Firefox addon for formatting w/ unicode characters would be great, but not found one.
One of the apps mentioned on the list here - EditBone - says it contains a character map - but haven't tried it to see how it works overall. I'm looking for simplicity, not programming level app.
Windows (Vista) has a character map (charmap.exe) that opens as a separate prgm. It lets you copy / paste or drag N drop symbols into forum composing screens or text editor, but that means a separate prgm running.
Its window isn't resizable & only way to scroll is with arrows or grab scroll bar. Haven't figured out how to have it stay on top, yet- maybe there's a way.
If anyone knows of fairly simple text editors (really, just Notepad / Wordpad type apps) that have unicode characters available from their menu / tool bar. please let me know.
AFAIK, it's NOT possible to compose w/ formatting in something like wordpad, copy it to a forum composer & maintain formatting.
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Looked at several apps in the alternative freeware list here. Looking for something simple to use mostly for forum posts & email, when I need special characters. Like the degrees symbol.
A Firefox addon for formatting w/ unicode characters would be great, but not found one.
One of the apps mentioned on the list here - EditBone - says it contains a character map - but haven't tried it to see how it works overall. I'm looking for simplicity, not programming level app.
Windows (Vista) has a character map (charmap.exe) that opens as a separate prgm. It lets you copy / paste or drag N drop symbols into forum composing screens or text editor, but that means a separate prgm running.
Its window isn't resizable & only way to scroll is with arrows or grab scroll bar. Haven't figured out how to have it stay on top, yet- maybe there's a way.
If anyone knows of fairly simple text editors (really, just Notepad / Wordpad type apps) that have unicode characters available from their menu / tool bar. please let me know.
AFAIK, it's NOT possible to compose w/ formatting in something like wordpad, copy it to a forum composer & maintain formatting.
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