Dear Mr.Nicola Holden;
One of my client had the same problem in Arabic Windows 95,
and I have solved that changing something in CodePage settings
of Wordperfect. Presently I do not have WP on my machine
and I have contacted my client, he might get back to me.
Liwal
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicola Holden [mailto:nicolah@corel.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 7:20 AM
> To: info@unicode.org
> Subject: Help with Unicode fonts.
>
>
> Hi
>
> I work for Corel Corp. in the WordPerfect technical support team, and
> would be very grateful for any assistance you can provide me with. I am
> having an issue with a customer using Unicode fonts for hebrew
> characters and the do not appear on the screen correctly and then they
> print out totally different.
>
> The problem the customer is experiencing is the following.
>
> .1. Launch WPWin8
> > 1.2. Click Format, Font, select a Corel font (or any non Unicode
> font)
> > 1.3. Click Ctrl+W 9,0 Insert. Add Hebrew characters 9,1; 9,2; 9,3.
> > 1.4. Note the Hebrew characters appear correctly.
> > 1.5. Type the <Enter-key> twice.
> > 1.6. Click Format, Font, select a Unicode font (eg Lucida Sans
> Unicode)
> > 1.7. Repeat step 3.
> > 1.8. Error: The screen display shows @ABC, although RevealCodes
> > shows the correct Hebrew characters.
> > 1.9. Save this file as Hebrew.wpd
> >
> > Steps to reproduce -- error 2:
> > 2.1. Launch WPWin8
> > 2.2. Click Format, Font, selectX-Mozilla-Status: 0009cida Sans
> Unicode)
> > 2.3. Click Ctrl+W 9,0 Insert. Add Hebrew characters 9,1; 9,2; 9,3.
> > 2.4. Error: The screen display shows !"#$, although RevealCodes
> > shows the correct Hebrew characters. These characters are
> > offset 32 in the Ansi character set from those displayed in
> > step 1.8.
> > 2.5. Type the <Enter-key> twice.
> > 2.6. Click Format, Font, select any Corel font (or any non-Unicode
> > font)
> > 2.7. Repeat step 2.3.
> > 2.8. Error: The screen display shows Hebrew characters offset by 32
> > from those selected, although RevealCodes shows the correct
> > Hebrew characters.
> >
> > Steps to reproduce -- error 3:
> > 3.1. Launch WPWin9
> > 3.2. Click File, Open, select Hebrew.wpd
> > 3.3. Note: all characters are the correct Hebrew characters.
> > 3.3. Error: For the Unicode font, the character size is about
> > 30% too large.
> I have tested this on WP8 and WP7 and the problems are identical on
> Windows 98/ NT/ 95. However with WP9 the problem no longer exists. I
> have tried everything I can think of but have come to a total block.
>
>
> I was wondering if you could tell me if Unicode is a supported font
> within WP9?
> What year was the Unicode font introduced and any other information
> would be of great help to me.
>
> Looking forward to hearing from you
> Kind Regards
> Nicola Holden
> Corel Technical Services.
>
>
>
>
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