I normally keep most of the Autocorrect and Autoformat options turned off (like smart quotes) except for special purposes. Now that you mention it, that could be the reason some diacritics have gotten changed, at least in “English” words like élite and naïve, while my Names with Death Dates file seems to have remained stable, with Unicode diacritics, for a couple of years now.
Haven’t figured out how to turn off smart quotes within email, though! Misha Schutt Catalog Librarian Burbank (Calif.) Public Library (818) 238 5570 msch...@ci.burbank.ca.us www.burbanklibrary.com From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Akerman, Laura Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 10:46 AM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] [ACAT] Upper case in records Misha, I assume you've examined the Options in Word and un-checked anything that says "replace as you type..." ? It's in different places depending on what version, but I found it by opening "Spelling and Grammar" and clicking Options... Laura From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Schutt, Misha Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 12:54 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] [ACAT] Upper case in records Adger Williams cautions: > Just a small caveat to Misha's plan for those who haven't tried it yet. > Many (all?) diacritical marks will come out reassigned to non-ALA characters > if you copy and paste into Word. (or at least this was true at some point. > Perhaps not true now?)
