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'''Isidore Bernard Dockweiler'''. ( - 1947) was a prominent California lawyer and politician from a pioneering Los Angeles family. |
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As an example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Enabling_complex_text_support_for_Indic_scripts |
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[[User:LiangHH|亮HH]] 08:34, 5 April 2006 (UTC) |
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Admitted to the practice of law October 1889, practicing for 58 years. Married to Gertrude Reeve. He and his wife had 13 children, 11 of which grew to adulthood (2 died in infancy). |
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The first link for Windows 98 support doesnt work. [[User:84.144.121.21|84.144.121.21]] |
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He served on the Los Angeles Common Council, forerunner to the Los Angeles City Council. |
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== Screen reader support == |
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He had numerous positions throughout his life, both local and national. He served as President of the Los Angeles City Library Commission and as a member of the U.S. Indian Commission. |
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The screen reader I use to edit [[Wikipedia]] is telling me there are question marks instead of [[Chinese Language|Chinese]] or [[Japanese Language|Japanese]] and other languages. Is it the browser or the screen reader? [[User:Robot569|Robot569]] 18:58, 11 May 2006 (UTC) |
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:What screen reader and what browser do you use? I experienced that if something is written in Chinese with IE, Mozilla can't read it, or the other way around. But that only happened with sites which dont you Unicode Encoding, Wiki does. [[User:LiangHH|亮HH]] 15:16, 12 May 2006 (UTC) |
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::I use JAWS for Windows. [[User:Robot569|Robot569]] 01:15, 13 May 2006 (UTC) |
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Dockweiler was defeated in the August 31, 1926 Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate nomination for California, losing to John B. Elliott. Elliott was the contestant sponsored by the then former U.S. Treasury Secretary William G. McAdoo. |
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==Appearance== |
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Should the two compared texts look '''''exactly''''' the same, or similar ignoring size and bolding? The non-Wikipedia text looks a size or two larger (not font size+1 as in|S Sepp]] 14:21, 24 August 2006 (UTC) |
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Served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. |
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== East asian characters within programs == |
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On January 26, 1955, the California State Parks Commission renamed the Venice-Hyperion Beach State Park in Playa del Rey to the Isidore B. Dockweiler Beach State Park. Dockweiler served as a member of that commission from 1939 until his death. |
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Should this article be expanded to include how to show east asian characters within |
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I am curious as to why characters from ''only'' these 3 languages always come up as question marks (???), yet other alphabets, such as the [[Arabic alphabet|Arabic]], [[Armenian alphabet|Armenian]], [[Greek alphabet|Greek]], [[Hebrew alphabet|Hebrew]], [[Cyrillic]], [[Georgian alphabet|Georgian]], [[Devanāgarī]], [[Kannada script|Kannada]], [[Brāhmī script|Brāhmī]], et. al. seem to come through just fine. [[User:12.40.34.150|12.40.34.150]] 21:23, 22 August 2007 (UTC) |
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Dockweiler, a Catholic, was awarded Pontifical knighthood as a Knight of Saint Gregory for meritorious service to the Catholic Church. |
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: Fonts for these scripts are very large compared to those for other scripts. The likely have not been installed on your system due to disk space considerations. —''[[User:Ruud Koot|Ruud]]'' 21:59, 22 August 2007 (UTC) |
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Father to Congressman John Francis Dockweiler. |
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== 平 == |
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He was interred in Calvary Cemetery (New Calvary Catholic Cemetery) in East Los Angeles. |
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平 > it shows me \/ where the picture says /\. Understand? In both traditional and simplified. The rest is ok. Is it bad? I don't read hanzi [[User:Mallerd|Mallerd]] 19:48, 20 October 2007 (UTC) |
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References: |
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: They are called [[variant Chinese character]]s. The two characters you mentioned are perfectly interchangeable in Chinese (might not be so in Korean or Japanese). The /\ variation is the one found in [[Kangxi dictionary]] (a famous Chinese dictionary compiled before modern time). The \/ variation is more commonly used today. A typesetter/publisher might choose one variant over the other for aesthetics reasons. --[[User:Voidvector|Voidvector]] 20:43, 28 October 2007 (UTC) |
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(1) Metropolitan News-Enterprise (Los Angeles), Thursday, July 17, 2008. |
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(2) Metropolitan News-Enterprise (Los Angeles), Thursday, July 24, 2008. |
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== Pocket PC == |
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Is there any help in getting English Pocket PCs to display CJK on websites like Wikipedia, apart from using native ROMs? Oh, and preferably free/open-source? I have an HTC TyTN (Hermes) (Cingular/AT&T 8525) running Windows Mobile 6. --[[User:Geopgeop|Geopgeop]] ([[User talk:Geopgeop|T]]) 06:34, 8 November 2007 (UTC) |
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== Other Installation Options == |
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According to the links provided on the pages, there are two options to download the appropriate languages: One if you have Windows Me, Windows 98, Windows 95, or Windows NT 4.0 and Windows Office XP. Now what if I have Windows XP without Windows Office XP? Am I unable to display East Asian characters? Does Microsoft suck '''that much'''? Also, I don't have a Windows XP install disc, so don't suggest that; my computer didn't come with one. <small>—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/24.181.40.100|24.181.40.100]] ([[User talk:24.181.40.100|talk]]) 05:44, 22 January 2008 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> |
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:If you only want to be able to read it in the browser, you can try this: Download an Asian font from the Internet (there are a few links on this page). Copy it into your font directory. Go to options of your browser select the font for the intended language. Most modern browsers should be able to display it correctly. --[[User:Voidvector|Voidvector]] ([[User talk:Voidvector|talk]]) 09:16, 22 January 2008 (UTC) |
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==Meta?== |
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Isn't this page best placed on [[m:Main Page|meta]], for other English projects to use too? - <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size:11pt">[[User:Mtmelendez|Mtmelendez]] <sup><small>([[User talk:Mtmelendez|Talk]])</small></sup></span> 15:13, 7 May 2008 (UTC) |
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== Writing Korean == |
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I want to write Korean, but a disk is required for installation, and I didnt find him. Where I can get the files needed to installation support for Korean? I have Windows XP, Proffesional edition, version 5.1.2600. --[[Special:Contributions/77.125.79.5|77.125.79.5]] ([[User talk:77.125.79.5|talk]]) 11:00, 29 June 2008 (UTC) |
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Revision as of 02:36, 6 August 2008
Isidore Bernard Dockweiler. ( - 1947) was a prominent California lawyer and politician from a pioneering Los Angeles family.
Admitted to the practice of law October 1889, practicing for 58 years. Married to Gertrude Reeve. He and his wife had 13 children, 11 of which grew to adulthood (2 died in infancy).
He served on the Los Angeles Common Council, forerunner to the Los Angeles City Council.
He had numerous positions throughout his life, both local and national. He served as President of the Los Angeles City Library Commission and as a member of the U.S. Indian Commission.
Dockweiler was defeated in the August 31, 1926 Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate nomination for California, losing to John B. Elliott. Elliott was the contestant sponsored by the then former U.S. Treasury Secretary William G. McAdoo.
Served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention.
On January 26, 1955, the California State Parks Commission renamed the Venice-Hyperion Beach State Park in Playa del Rey to the Isidore B. Dockweiler Beach State Park. Dockweiler served as a member of that commission from 1939 until his death.
Dockweiler, a Catholic, was awarded Pontifical knighthood as a Knight of Saint Gregory for meritorious service to the Catholic Church.
Father to Congressman John Francis Dockweiler.
He was interred in Calvary Cemetery (New Calvary Catholic Cemetery) in East Los Angeles.
References: (1) Metropolitan News-Enterprise (Los Angeles), Thursday, July 17, 2008. (2) Metropolitan News-Enterprise (Los Angeles), Thursday, July 24, 2008.