Re: Microsoft Word Query

From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Mon Mar 19 2001 - 12:29:10 EST


On 03/19/2001 10:46:48 AM Markus Scherer wrote:

>Sam Chapman wrote:
>> character | UNICODE | converted to
>> " 84 22
>> ... 85 2E 2E 2E
>> ' 91 27
>> ' 92 27
>> " 93 22
>> " 94 22
>> - 96 2D
>> - 97 2D
>> (tm) 99 28 74 6D 29 (tm)
>
>Note that these are _not_ Unicode characters. U+0080..U+009f are ISO 8-bit
C1
>controls.
>The use of byte codes 0x84..0x9f for these particular graphic characters
is an
>assignment in windows-1252, not in Unicode.

True, but if the equivalent Unicode characters are in a Word 97/2000 doc
and you export to text, then the replacements that Sam indicated are made.
That was the main point he was making, and is valid.

- Peter

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