Re: Symbol problems in Word 2004 for mac

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Hi Paul,

That's exactly what I said (perhaps not as clearly as you).

Regards,
Klaus

"Paul Berkowitz" <berkowit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:BE85A919.9346F%berkowit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> On 4/15/05 5:01 PM, in article BE8692E8.137CC%john@xxxxxxxxxxx, "John McGhie
> [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]" <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > Visual Basic for the Macintosh does not support Unicode strings.
> > Consequently, ChrW(n) cannot return all Unicode characters for n values in
> > the range of 128-65,535, as it does in the Windows environment. Instead,
> > ChrW(n) attempts a "best guess" for Unicode values n greater than 127.
> > Therefore, you should not use ChrW in the Macintosh environment.
>


> And this is correct.
>
> Klaus, it's not true that Word X can insert the correct Unicode character
> for all values 128-65535. When there's a Mac "International" character that
> corresponds (West European with diacritics, Central European, Cyrillic,
> about 15,000 Chinese-Japanese-Korean characters [only], a few others) it
> will do so. When there isn't, you get that underscore. I think you may see
> the Unicode character if you the bring the doc over to WinWord: the encoding
> is in place. But it's not inserting the character in Word X.
>
> --
> Paul Berkowitz
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> PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using -
> **2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions
> otherwise.
>

> > You may find even Word X is better than you assume.
> > Say, Selection.InsertAfter ChrW(i)
> > will insert the "proper" Unicode character. The only problem
> > I saw is that Word might not be able to display the character
> > (and shows an underscore).

.

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