Re: Diacritic accents not displaying properly

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You have a new fully Unicode-capable mechanism in Word 2008. It extends
most of the new goodies from Apple ATSUI (Apple Type Services for Unicode
Interface) into Word.

ATSUI was in use in Word 2004 also, but this is a big upgrade to the new
version that does ligatures as well.

If you use old non-Unicode fonts, the characters are "embedded" in the
document as "protected", and they re specified as {font + character number}
pairs. You will only get the correct character in the font specified.

Unicode will enable you to change the font for characters that are encoded
with their Unicode character numbers. But if the characters are encoded as
numbers from a specified font, it can't change the font unless you retype
the character. So it inhibits the font change :-)

You can change the character if you delete it and re-type it as its Unicode
equivalent.

Usually, you can make the Find function find it if you copy just the
character and paste it into the Find box. And if you can, then you can use
the Replace box to replace the character with its Unicode equivalent. (This
won't work for some fonts...)

Hope this helps


On 5/02/08 10:39 AM, in article ee8be51.5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"alientango@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <alientango@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

thg:
ok, so if Times CSX+ is not unicode, then i don't understand why it worked
before and not now?

Could it be that the fonts that do not work do not contain the diacritic
characters? Word might not switch fonts if that were the case.






um, i'm not sure, it sounds like a plausible explanation but i'm no whiz with
computers. still, that doesn't explain why Times CSX+ worked before or why
Word refuses to change to Times or Times New Roman, for example. those two
fonts do have all the characters and diacritic accents, don't they? or at
least, my keyboard viewer says they do (and i'm not sure that is very reliable
though; is there any way i can find out?).

extremely puzzling...

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