Here's why I will not upgrade!

[Thanasis Siozos]

After downloading the 15 day trial and testing
the text tool, I see that the century old
problem with accented foreign (non-English)
characters remains. This is a problem from
v.1 of Xara. I need this tool VERY BAD for
my webs and although I REPEATEDLY EMAILED THEM,
Xara didn't give a damn to correct it.

So I won't give a damn to upgrade.

Hey XARA, not all your users are English-speaking
FOR KRIST'S SAKE!

(Anyway due to this problem and Xara's lack of updates for 2 years now, I jumped ship to Fireworks, which DOES SUPPORT UNICODE TEXT)

The new features are fantastic and I envy
all english-speaking users. But it's no good
to me if I can't build my web gfx in my native
language.

VERY ANGRY,
TS

[Thanasis Siozos]

After downloading the 15 day trial and testing
the text tool, I see that the century old
problem with accented foreign (non-English)
characters remains. This is a problem from
v.1 of Xara. I need this tool VERY BAD for
my webs and although I REPEATEDLY EMAILED THEM,
Xara didn't give a damn to correct it.

So I won't give a damn to upgrade.

Hey XARA, not all your users are English-speaking
FOR KRIST'S SAKE!

(Anyway due to this problem and Xara's lack of updates for 2 years now, I jumped ship to Fireworks, which DOES SUPPORT UNICODE TEXT)

The new features are fantastic and I envy
all english-speaking users. But it's no good
to me if I can't build my web gfx in my native
language.

VERY ANGRY,
TS

[Mark Goodall]

We are looking and have been looking at this very problem, and it is our intention to resolve it, I understand your frustration.
Apologies.

Mark Goodall
Xara Ltd

[bacarr]

I have e-mailed Xara regarding this problem as well. I live in Korea and would like to be able to include hangul and Chinese characters in my drawings (mostly business cards and letterheads).

As it is, I have to select and cut text from Microsoft Word and then paste as a metafile into Xara. It works, but then I can't edit anything.

What a pain. As an owner from v1.2 (which I admit I picked up out of a cut-out bin at "Incredible Universe" in 1996), I would have hoped this problem might have been solved in the four years since I've been using it.

[ivan louette]

Hello,

I don't understand which problem you have with accented characters in Xara X ??? I speak french and I can type them directly inside the program or cut and paste them from others without any problems.
I work with a french version of NT4.
And on the other hand I am very satisfied because PostScript fonts problems are now perfectly solved !!!

Regards,
ivan

[npopov]

A lot of fonts that worked correctly under Win NT4 do not work under Win 2000. (I need cyrillic letters). Corel Draw has no this problem (Then I can convert text to curves and copy-paste to XaraX).
I did not find any way to put the characters (not curves) I need into XaraX.
Even copying from Character Map does not help.

[Mark Goodall]

Xara X is a unicode application internally and all text in the application and in the .xar file is stored as Unicode.
Text is converted to and from the local OS character set as and when required, so the outstanding problems with local character sets should be solvable.
Xara does support a variety of methods of inputting local character sets including dead letter keys.

Mark Goodall
Xara Ltd

[gwpriester]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> Xara does support a variety of methods of inputting local character sets including dead letter keys. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Mark, what are dead letter keys are?

Gary

Gary Priester

Moderator Person

Be It Every So Humble...

[davezub]

Dead keys are used to create special characters that do not exists on some keybords, like ä, ç.

I think this is what Mark is talking about,however, I could be wrong.

Dave Zubrowski

[npopov]

Characters like this are displayed in XaraX just as "?". (Windows 2000)