Re: Word, Asian characters, and Arial Unicode

From: Thomas Chan (thomas@atlas.datexx.com)
Date: Sun May 06 2001 - 19:22:38 EDT

On Sun, 6 May 2001, David J. Perry wrote:

> Word 2000 (under Win98) insists on using Arial Unicode MS whenever you
> insert a character in the CJK Punctuation range. There are some characters
> here that might be useful in non-CJK situations, such as the double
> brackets. I have made a font with these characters but Word will not let me

By "double brackets", do you mean U+300A and U+300B (LEFT/RIGHT DOUBLE
ANGLE BRACKET)? Those are used to delimit titles of books and articles.
What kind of usage do you have in mind that U+00AB and U+00BB
(LEFT/RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK) or U+226A and U+226B
(MUCH LESS/GREATER-THAN) couldn't be used?

Not all of the symbols in that block have analogues elsewhere, though--I'm
not sure what you can do about that.

Thomas Chan
tc31@cornell.edu

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