Word2000 (designed in 1997-98) was not designed to handle surrogate
pairs. The two surrogates combine to display correctly when running
under Win2000, but Word2000 believes there are two characters there, so
it advances two character widths. I believe we may have tweaked the
spacing in the SR1 or SP2 release of Office2000. If you have that and
are still seeing the problem, then the problem did not get fixed. If you
have just the initial release version, try installing SR1.
Word2002 (from OfficeXP) handles surrogates correctly. Word2002 also
handles Alt-x directly in the document.
Chris Pratley
Group Program Manager
Microsoft Word
Sent using OfficeXP
-----Original Message-----
From: David J. Perry [mailto:perryd@telocity.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 3:32 PM
To: unicode@unicode.org
Subject: Word and Version 3.1 characters
I, too, have been playing with the new Plane 1 characters of Unicode
3.1. I can use WordPad, per the instructions people have given here,
and
things work as advertised.
When I try it in Word 2000 under Win2000, however, I find the following:
a. If I use the numeric keypad to enter the two surrogate values, I just
get two blank rectangles.
b. I can enter a Unicode scalar value in a dialog box (Edit/Find, for
example), press Alt-x, and copy the resulting character into my
document. This appears to give the proper character when it is pasted,
but
there is extra white space next to the character in Word. I can select
the
white space separately from the character, but when I delete the space,
the
character goes too! I'm guessing that the white space represents one
half
of a surrogate pair, and Word is trying to keep the two surrogates
together
. . . but doesn't quite display them properly.
Can anybody shed light on this behavior? I've been using James Kass's
Code
2001 font for testing the Old Italic block.
David
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