Inserting unicode special characters in titles

[SearchQuality]

Dear All. When I create menus, I need to insert special characters in titles. I can spot these special characters using Windows Character Map. Such characters have a unicode, but they can not be produced using the Alt+numeric keypad combination. Copy and paste for special characters does not work in most of the video editing programs. No matter which font is used the character is displayed as a "?" sign. An example is the character Latin small letter dotless i" which is unicode "U+0131". It is not possible to paste this character in a title. Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[presto]

How about creating backgrounds and/or buttons that have the text allready on them?

[SearchQuality]

It is the same problem. In fact I generally take a standard title such as "Film produced by ......." and try to insert the special characters I need, in vain.

[presto]

You said copy and paste does not work in most video programs but why can't you go into a program like Paint and create the background with the characters on it? You would then import that background into the video program.

[SearchQuality]

I have not done that until now. Yes, if I make the title with special characters as a part of the background and use this background in the menu, then the program will see it as an image and will accept it. However this will become a rather time-consuming and tedious job especially in menus where there are many thumbnails with subtitles referring to the chapters. Besides in many cases one has to experiment with different menu structures changing button styles, links, backgrounds, colours and fonts trying to find the best presentation of the DVD movie. I appreciate your proposal, but I think in my case it will be a limited solution.

[Stas]

Hi,

I live in Bulgaria and all cyrillic fonts we use are unicode and ... no problems using them.

What language you use? There are several issues with local languages in Win XP. Some of the programs didn't recognise special chars in unicode.

Can you provide the software you use: Editing program, keyboard driver, regional settings, font names ... more info is needed to answer your question.

[SearchQuality]

Hi,

What language you use? There are several issues with local languages in Win XP. Some of the programs didn't recognise special chars in unicode.

Can you provide the software you use: Editing program, keyboard driver, regional settings, font names ... more info is needed to answer your question.

I am using English on a UK QWERTY keyboard running on Win XP. Keyboard drivers are from Logitech. Frequently I need to use special characters in my DVD authoring programs. Copying these characters from Win Character Map does not help. I have also tried using different keyboard layouts. In such a case the character appears correctly in Notepad, but gives a wrong result when used in the DVD authoring package. DVD authoring packages like Ulead Movie Factory demo version have this problem. If you have any suggestions this will be very welcome. Thanks.