[DM-MUG] Appleworks abruptly quitting? HELP!!!

[Victoria L. Herring]

Courtesy of Apple Discussion Baord

Problem: Since upgrading to Tiger, AppleWorks quits every time you press a key

Solution: Check to make sure you don't have the US Extended keyboard 
layout enabled. This is a Unicode layout & AppleWorks can't handle 
Unicode. Go to System Preferences > International > Input Menu & 
uncheck the US Extended keyboard layout. I have found that I can have 
it checked in the Input Menu, but I keep it unchecked under the flag 
in the menu bar when I am using AppleWorks. This lets me choose it 
for text entry into Pages or TextEdit documents. These programs, and 
there may be others, do support Unicode.

Another that does not support Unicode is Word v.X (though it doesn't 
quit). The two most common non-Unicode apps used to have Unicode 
keyboards grayed out, but in Tiger they are not and give the mistaken 
impression that they can be used as intended. (Thanks to Tom Gewecke 
for this information.)
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