Re: Why the odd characters in a Word document
From: Alan Wood (alan.wood_at_context.co.uk)
Date: 09/27/04
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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 14:30:29 +0100
<3253535@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> A friend and I are writing a book together, using Word, and are having
> trouble getting the text to not have strange characters in some of the
> words, like ones with apostrophes, etc.
>
> I have a fresh copy of Word 2004 on my G5 (OS10.3.5), and she has a
> fresh copy of Word X on her iBook (OS 10.3.5).
Word 2004 uses Unicode, but Word v.X has very limited Unicode support.
Your files probably use character 8217 for apostrophe, and this will be
present in the Unicode font that Word 2004 is using.
Your friend's Word v.X probably uses 213 for apostrophe, and is probably
using a font that does not have a character at 8217.
If you try to use files created on Word v.X, you will probably find that
where you expect an apostrophe, you get a capital O with tilde, which is 213
in Unicode.
You are almost certain to have problems unless you both use the same version
of Word.
-- Alan Wood http://www.alanwood.net (Unicode, special characters, pesticide names)
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