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Foreign Language Character Input on Windows XP in the LRC

2011/04/14 plagwitz 1 comment

The LRC offers the following foreign language characters writing support:

American English	us international	not needed	us-int
Arabic	Google;MS;MS-maren;fontboard	maybe later, now osk	demo
British English	us international	not needed	us-int
Dutch	us international	not needed	us-int
Farsi	Google;MS	maybe later, now osk	demo
French	us international	not needed	us-int
German	us international	not needed	us-int
Greek	Google;MS	maybe later, now osk	demo
Italian	us international	not needed	us-int
Japanese	MS	not needed
Korean	MS	maybe later, now osk	demo
Mandarin	MS;pinyinput	not needed	pinyin
Portuguese (Brazilian)	us international	not needed	us-int
Russian	Google;MS	maybe later, now osk	demo
Spanish	us international	not needed	us-int

The support is best accessed from the “international toolbar”, like so:

You can also use the windows on-screen keyboard to input non-Western characters on a computer that has not the corresponding keyboard overlay stickers. In the small-group workspaces, which have writing pads, you can also use the MS-Handwriting IME for East-Asian languages.

How to: Send email with non-western (e.g. Japanese) characters in Outlook Web Access (e.g. 2003, e.g. from Safari)

2011/04/01 plagwitz Leave a comment

If your emails with Japanese sent from Safari arrive with unreadable characters (squares or question marks, meaning the recipient’s computer cannot decode how to display the character your computer sent), you may have set your browser to the wrong characterr encoding.
However, the encoding Unicode (e.g. UTF-8) can handle both western and .
Simply go to Safari (similarly in other browsers)/ Preferences / Appearances / Default Encoding and change to UTF-8, like so:
This has been tested to work already from/to OWA 2003.
However, for your reference, here a matrix of imminent upgrades of email clients on your computer and the corresponding university server software:

When?	Your office computer		recommended?	Any computer (travel, home)	University server
When?	mac	pc		Any computer (travel, home)	University server
soon	Outlook 2011	Outlook 2010	is better than	Outlook web access 2010	Exchange 2010
recommended?	is better than	is better than		is better than	is better than
now	Entourage (limited support for Exchange)	Outlook 2007	is better than	Outlook web access 2003	Exchange 2003

Categories: Arabic, e-infrastructure, Farsi, Glitches&Errors, Greek (modern), Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Russian

Calendaring: How students can view the LRC schedules

2011/02/24 plagwitz 1 comment

As of Fall 2011, this is obsolete. View instead the new and improved procedure.
Calendars you can subscribe to:

Ind.Instr.Spanish	webcal://calendars.office.microsoft.com/pubcalstorage/6d826ffz2216669/COED_434-Tutoring-Spanish_Calendar.ics
Tutors French	webcal://calendars.office.microsoft.com/pubcalstorage/6d826ffz2216669/COED_434-Tutoring-French_Calendar(1).ics
Tutors Russian	webcal://calendars.office.microsoft.com/pubcalstorage/6d826ffz2216669/COED-434-Tutoring-Russian-2_Calendar.ics
Tutors Portuguese	webcal://calendars.office.microsoft.com/pubcalstorage/m8qcbqfz1289583/COED-434-Tutoring-Portuguese_Calendar.ics
Tutors Japanese	webcal://calendars.office.microsoft.com/pubcalstorage/m8qcbqfz1289583/COED-434-Tutoring-Japanese_Calendar.ics
Lab Assistants	webcal://calendars.office.microsoft.com/pubcalstorage/6d826ffz2216669/COED_434-Lab_Assistants_Calendar.ics
Director Free/Busy	webcal://calendars.office.microsoft.com/pubcalstorage/m8qcbqfz1289583/Plagwitz_Thomas_Calendar.ics

How?
“You can subscribe to published calendars if you use a program that supports the WebCal protocol, such as Outlook, Windows Live Calendar, Google Calendar, or Apple iCal” (MS-Office online Help), as well as Yahoo Calendar.

Is Windows Live Calendar available to everyone with a Windows Live ID?

Yes, the Windows Live Calendar is available to all Windows Live ID accounts. To learn more about setting up and maintaining your calendar, open Windows Live Calendar Help. (Microsoft Live Services for Moodle User FAQ)

Windows Live ID = UNCC Live@edu ID

Using the “webcal://”-links (to be posted also on the LRC website), students will be able to view live LRC schedules from live@edu (and many other applications that support the iCalendar format, like listed on

http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-outlook/archive/2007/08/08/publishing-a-calendar-using-office-online.aspx or here):

Application	Publisher
Chandler (PIM)	Open Source Applications Foundation
Evolution	Novell & GNOME
Facebook.com	Facebook.com
Google Calendar	Google
iCal and iCal Server	Apple Computer
Kontact	The Kontact Team
Lotus Notes	IBM
Microsoft Entourage	Microsoft
Microsoft Exchange	Microsoft
Microsoft Outlook	Microsoft
Windows Calendar	Microsoft
Sun Java Calendar Server	Sun
Zimbra Collaboration Suite	Zimbra

How to set this up, taken from the Windows Live help:
Sign into Windows live (or later live@edu) with your Windows live (or later live@edu) ID.
On the toolbar, go to Calendar.
Click Subscribe.
Select Subscribe to a public calendar, and then, in the Calendar URL box, paste the “webcal://” link from the LRC website for the tutoring hours or other LRC schedule that you want to keep an eye on. You begin the link either with “webcal:” or “http:”. Note, however, that trying to subscribe to “webcalS” will result in this error:
In the Calendar name box, type a name for the calendar.
Next to Color, select a color for the calendar.
Click Subscribe to calendar, and then click Done. Result:
This calendar will be live, i.e. every subscriber will see any updates the LRC makes (like for late-breaking changes and cancellations of tutoring hours). Note however, that synchronization is not instantaneous. Give it up to 30 minutes, under normal circumstances.

Categories: e-infrastructure, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish Tags: live@edu, LRC-website, scheduling, tutoring

Swift-TX subtitling with Windows XP Japanese IME

2010/11/24 plagwitz Leave a comment

In order to get Swift to work with Japanese , you have to set the font in the swift preferences:

This computer worked –

meaning: IME showing up here.

”Input mode” must be set to Hiragana, not “direct input” which (if I recall correctly think) we did in XP/ control panel/ “regional and language settings”.