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 REQUIRED DATE- OPEN          USER PRIORITY WEIGHT-  59    RANKING-  0033
 DATE RECEIVED- APR 22, 1997  REQUEST STANDING  - REVIEW   AS OF- JUN 16, 1997
                              TYPE- NEW DEVELOP

 DESCRIPTION-

        As a desktop publisher, one thing I find lacking in OS/2 is the
        EASY support of typographically correct characters like "curly"
        quotes, em dashes, etc.  I know some fonts support this, but it
        is VERY awkward to switch between fonts and have to manually
        format your document to be typographically correct.

        The DeScribe word processor had true typographical characters
        like curly quotes which automatically where applied to what you
        typed.  I don't know how they did it, but I heard it was
        difficult.  I need this ability in other OS/2 applications
        (i.e., WordPro and Freelance Graphics).  I hope OS/2 developers
        follow Windows' lead in making these code pages available to
        users and applications.

        ATTRIBUTES:

        MEDIUM Value
        Desired next FIXPACK

        Submitted by:

        Michael Hansen
        Chicago, IL, USA
        mhansen@sprynet.com

        Supplemental text:

        This is about the above suggestion.  I would like to suggest it
        be boosted in priority.  I believe that codepage 1004, included
        with OS/2, does include the typographic characters, but it
        seems to be difficult for developers to access it.  The lack of
        this feature is a terrible impediment to OS/2's being accepted
        for any word-processing work where good output is desired.

        Submitted by:

        Mike Prager
        Tiburon, California, USA
        mikep@tib.nmfs.gov

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