RE: [OT?] Modifying (Unicode) sorting of languages using diacritics in MS Word and MS SQL Server

2004-02-22 Thread Chris Pratley
Word uses sort orders provided by the system, so if it is not there, you wouldn't be able to use it. Same with additional language IDs - the system defines a set of languages which Word is using. Windows XP was shipped well before Unicode 4.0 came out, and Word2003 was shipped just after Unicode

RE: Detecting encoding in Plain text

2004-01-08 Thread Chris Pratley
If you are on the Windows platform, look at mlang.dll, and at the IMultiLanguage2 and IMultiLanguage3 APIs, which provide this service. As others have noted you will get false detections with too little or ambiguous data, but you may be quite surprised at just how accurate this detection is (someti

RE: MS Windows and Unicode 4.0 ?

2003-12-02 Thread Chris Pratley
Title: RE: MS Windows and Unicode 4.0 ? A few corrections to your version of history below +++ Chris Pratley Group Program Manager, Microsoft Word, Publisher, OneNote _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Philippe

RE: UTF-8 and HTML import into MS Word 2000

2003-08-08 Thread Chris Pratley
Did you solve your problem? I opened both of these documents into IE, clicked the "Edit in Microsoft Word" button for each, and they imported correctly, with the Japanese displaying fine. In the first test file, the last letter of your name at the bottom is not correctly encoded in UTF-8 so it doe

RE: CJK question

2003-03-23 Thread Chris Pratley
t, you can use ExtB fonts, such as the one in the Office XP Proofing Tools.   Chris From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Sun 3/23/2003 12:18 AMTo: Chris PratleyCc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: CJK question Chris Pratley wrote,> Win2000 can be made to support

RE: CJK question

2003-03-22 Thread Chris Pratley
Win2000 can be made to support Ext B characters. Download the support package at: http://www.microsoft.com/china/windows2000/downloads/18030.asp   Office2000 does NOT support Ext B or any Unicode characters above plane 0, but OfficeXP does.   The Proofing Tools for Office2000 naturally do no

RE: code points in MS word

2002-12-10 Thread Chris Pratley
If you put the bytes "00" and "41 in the file in that order, and expect LATIN CAPTIAL LETTER A, then that is assuming a text file encoding of UCS-2/UTF-16, and a byte order of MSB first, LSB second. Word calls that encoding "Unicode (big-endian)". You can use Word2000 or Word2002 to open that file

RE: TrueType signature bits and MS Word

2002-07-17 Thread Chris Pratley
You should always set as much info correctly in the font as you can. What you are seeing are the results of some workarounds we had to implement to handle poorly made fonts. Chris MS Word Sent with Office11 on WindowsXP -Original Message- From: Raymond Mercier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Unicode Latin combining diacritics - Looking for real-world example documents

2002-04-01 Thread Chris Pratley
done right I need your help!   Thanks in advance, Chris Pratley Group Program Manager Microsoft Word   Sent with OfficeXP on WindowsXP  

RE: Keyboard Layouts for Office XP in Windows 98

2002-03-14 Thread Chris Pratley
ent with OfficeXP on WindowsXP -Original Message- From: Martin Kochanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: March 14, 2002 00:47 To: Chris Pratley; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Keyboard Layouts for Office XP in Windows 98 At 21:47 13/03/02 -0800, Chris Pratley wrote: >If you'

RE: Keyboard Layouts for Office XP in Windows 98

2002-03-13 Thread Chris Pratley
Kochanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: March 12, 2002 00:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Keyboard Layouts for Office XP in Windows 98 At 17:34 11/03/02 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On 03/11/2002 12:58:16 AM "Chris Pratley" wrote: > >>While it is true that in

RE: Keyboard Layouts for Office XP in WIndows 98

2002-03-11 Thread Chris Pratley
Durdin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 2:55 PM To: Vladimir Ivanov; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Chris Pratley; Michael Everson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Keyboard Layouts for Office XP in WIndows 98 At 08:20 PM 9/03/2002 +0300, Vladimir Ivanov wrote: >Should we wait for Key

RE: Keyboard Layouts for Office XP in WIndows 98

2002-03-08 Thread Chris Pratley
ows codepages Windows codepages I'm hoping that when Office dotNet appears that support for WM_UNICHAR will have been added to other apps in the Office suite. (Chris Pratley, can you comment on that?) - Peter ---

RE: CRLF vs. LF (was Re: Unicode and end users)

2002-02-21 Thread Chris Pratley
A correction on Murray's comment: Note that Word2002 handles all of these types of line breaks (CRLF, LF, CR, and PS) and roundtrips them so that your LF-only text file remains LF after editing. I have to agree that Word is not in the class of "system default editors" Chris Group Program Manager

RE: Unicode and end users

2002-02-19 Thread Chris Pratley
Even better, use Word2002 and get all that, plus the ability to *edit* the file and then save it back in any encoding, controlling CRLF/LF/CR or whatever... Actually, this problem of remembering encoding is not specific to notepad - it happens for any text editor. The issue is that often the enco

RE: Unicode and end users

2002-02-19 Thread Chris Pratley
Perhaps that was true of NT4. On WindowsXP NTFS uses UTF-16 - it handles Extension B filenames just fine. Chris Sent with OfficeXP on WindowsXP -Original Message- From: John Cowan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: February 19, 2002 5:04 AM To: David Hopwood Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subjec

RE: the Unicode range and code page range bits in the TrueType OS/2 table

2002-02-08 Thread Chris Pratley
Microsoft applications use both of these to try to determine if a font is likely to support a certain range. Some fonts do not properly set those values but most do, especially common ones. Chris Pratley Group Program Manager Microsoft Office Sent with OfficeXP on WindowsXP -Original

RE: OCX's that support Unicode

2001-10-19 Thread Chris Pratley
Um, best to check the license agreement in Project. Sorry, I have little to do with them. Sent with OfficeXP final release -Original Message- From: Tex Texin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: October 18, 2001 11:23 PM To: Chris Pratley Cc: Michael (michka) Kaplan; Unicoders; NE

RE: Windows/Office XP question

2001-10-19 Thread Chris Pratley
The Office system is more like a form of B, maybe B+. When looking for substitute fonts, we actually try to match by font style (Sans serif, etc.). Frankly this is more than enough for what is really a fallback mechanism. FWIW, "A" sounds nice and I can imagine some niche cases where one might

RE: Windows/Office XP question

2001-10-18 Thread Chris Pratley
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: October 18, 2001 5:46 PM To: Chris Pratley Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Windows/Office XP question "Chris Pratley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There are fonts available for download from Microsoft that cover > much of CJK Ext A and Ex

RE: OCX's that support Unicode

2001-10-18 Thread Chris Pratley
I believe MS Project ships with several webparts for use in IE. These are probably Unicode enabled. Sent with OfficeXP final release -Original Message- From: Michael (michka) Kaplan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: October 18, 2001 6:00 PM To: Tex Texin Cc: Unicoders; NE Localization S

RE: Windows/Office XP question

2001-10-18 Thread Chris Pratley
Yes, Office2000 and OfficeXp do this too (better in XP), and IE has also done it for several years (at least since IE5). For example with Word2002 from OfficeXp, try typing any assigned Unicode value in hex (e.g. U+15b4, or even 20456) then type "Alt-x". You'll see font fix-up in action, provided

RE: Windows/Office XP question

2001-10-17 Thread Chris Pratley
All the Microsoft TrueType fonts are Unicode, and the repertoires that each of them cover are added to over time. (usually in small groups of characters in order to fully support regions such as the former soviet republics, etc.) If you are referring specifically to Arial Unicode MS, the curren

RE: microsoft font link

2001-08-07 Thread Chris Pratley
p their investment - this font is far more expensive than typical fonts) Thanks, Chris Sent with OfficeXP final release -Original Message- From: Mike Lischke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: August 4, 2001 7:31 AM To: Chris Pratley; Magda Danish (Unicode); [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: m

RE: Unicode/font questions.

2001-08-01 Thread Chris Pratley
is always as fast or faster than non-Unicode processing. Chris Pratley Grpoup Program Manager Microsoft Word Sent with OfficeXP final release -Original Message- From: Murray Sargent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: August 1, 2001 9:13 AM To: Richard, Francois M; [EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: microsoft font link

2001-07-31 Thread Chris Pratley
The font Arial Unicode MS is not free for download. You must be a licensed user of an Office Family product from the 2000 or XP generation. If you have Office2000 or OfficeXp, Arial Unicode MS comes on the CD of the product. If you have Publisher2000, you can go to http://office.microsoft.com and

RE: Cicero and TSF(was RE: Wordprocessors in Korean)

2001-07-16 Thread Chris Pratley
-Original Message- From: Jungshik Shin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: July 16, 2001 7:30 PM To: Chris Pratley Cc: Seuk Soo Sung; Unicode Mailing List Subject: Cicero and TSF(was RE: Wordprocessors in Korean) On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Chris Pratley wrote: > From: Seuk Soo Sung [mailto:[EM

RE: Wordprocessors in Korean

2001-07-16 Thread Chris Pratley
al release -Original Message- From: Seuk Soo Sung [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: July 16, 2001 6:04 AM To: Chris Pratley; Jungshik Shin Cc: Unicode Mailing List Subject: RE: Wordprocessors in Korean First of all, sorry for long mail. If you are not interesting Korean Wordprocessor, please

RE: Wordprocessors in Korean

2001-07-14 Thread Chris Pratley
eaker I do not really understand the complexities of the arguments involved since they seem mainly philosophical and very passionate. BTW, do you have any details on what you described as limitations for Word in Korean word processing? Chris Pratley Group Program Manager Microsoft Word Sent usin

RE: Wordprocessors in Korean

2001-07-13 Thread Chris Pratley
k for the last 6 years, I know how much Word has improved in that area, so I am sure that at least some of the complaints have been addressed. Chris Pratley Group Program Manager Microsoft Word Sent with OfficeXP final release -Original Message- From: Jungshik Shin [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

RE: Erratum in Unicode book

2001-07-11 Thread Chris Pratley
more. (and sometimes earlier, often to their and others' significant detriment :-)) Chris Pratley Group Program Manager Microsoft Word Sent with OfficeXP final release -Original Message- From: Michael (michka) Kaplan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: July 9, 2001 12:26 PM To: Unicode L

RE: Word and Version 3.1 characters

2001-04-02 Thread Chris Pratley
SP2 release of Office2000. If you have that and are still seeing the problem, then the problem did not get fixed. If you have just the initial release version, try installing SR1. Word2002 (from OfficeXP) handles surrogates correctly. Word2002 also handles Alt-x directly in the document. Chris

RE: Unicode market acceptance

2001-03-20 Thread Chris Pratley
1 support for "surrogates", display, editing, etc. What's not to like? :) Chris Pratley Group Program Manager Microsoft Word -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 5:43 AM To: Unicode List Subject: RE: Unicode marke

RE: Devanagari question

2000-11-14 Thread Chris Pratley
claim that they do not see the set of Chinese characters as bounded, even if one were to go through all ancient texts. It is the job of the UTC to make a call on newly proposed characters - hopefully their number will be few. Chris Pratley Microsoft Sent with Office10 2302 wordmail on -Orig

RE: utf8, utf16, ucs2, ucs4 and twobyte_euc_jp

2000-11-07 Thread Chris Pratley
Both IE 5.x and Word2000 can do these conversions for text files. Just open the file, and do a save as, then pick the encoding. (For Word2000, pick "encoded text" as the file type for saving). Chris Pratley -Original Message- From: Wong YenChin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent

RE: Myanmar Script (1000-109F)

2000-10-20 Thread Chris Pratley
This font looks like a classic latin-1 hack font. The upper and lowercase Latin glyphs have been switched for Burmese. Chris Pratley Group Program Manager Microsoft Word Sent with Office10 2216 wordmail on -Original Message- From: John Jenkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: October

RE: CJK combining components (was "Giga Character Set":

2000-10-17 Thread Chris Pratley
egacy installed base is now more Unicode than not by a wide margin (for Office, not Windows). Chris Pratley Group Program Manager Microsoft Word Sent with Office10 build2209 wordmail on -Original Message- From: Doug Ewell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: October 16, 2000 7:23 PM To: Un

RE: A binary that runs on Win9X and WinNT

2000-10-11 Thread Chris Pratley
The Office team does not make the solution we developed internally for our own applications available publicly for several reasons: 1. It takes time to extract the code 2. Its priority is always low since it does not help Office 3. The application teams are not in the business of Win32 developer s

RE: lag time in Unicode implementations in OS, etc?

2000-10-03 Thread Chris Pratley
2125 -Original Message- From: Jeff Hay-Roe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: October 3, 2000 1:52 PM To: Unicode List Subject: RE: lag time in Unicode implementations in OS, etc? Chris Pratley wrote: >Surrogate support was not turned on by default in Win2000 because the >Windows team

RE: [OT] Word select in Microsoft products?

2000-10-03 Thread Chris Pratley
" by waving the mouse past the ends of both words, then backing up. I never would have guessed the behavior, but it seems to work. Thanks! Mark - Original Message - From: Chris Pratley To: 'Mark Davis' ; Unicode List Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 13:12 Subject: RE: [OT]

RE: [OT] Word select in Microsoft produ

2000-10-03 Thread Chris Pratley
to between the "fo" by waving the mouse past the ends of both words, then backing up. I never would have guessed the behavior, but it seems to work. Thanks!   Mark - Original Message - From: Chris Pratley To: 'Mark Davis'

RE: lag time in Unicode implementations in OS, etc?

2000-10-03 Thread Chris Pratley
Surrogate support was not turned on by default in Win2000 because the Windows team was waiting for the standard to be finalized. It was also added late, so to reduce the potential impact they had it off - a safe bet since the standard was still 1+ years from completion. Chris Sent with office10

RE: [OT] Word select in Microsoft produ

2000-10-02 Thread Chris Pratley
off. Word handles the spacing between words so I just type.   Sorry I can’t help you with the other products Mark. Maybe someone else knows…   Chris Pratley Group Program Manager Microsoft Word   Sent with office10 2125   -Original Message- From: Mark Davis [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Can anyone help me!!!

2000-09-26 Thread Chris Pratley
;t have enough time to get the Thai/Indic in the global release, that's all. That's why Peter's comparison works the way it does now, and won't work that way next year when Word10 is available. Chris Pratley Group Program Manager Microsoft Word Sent with Office10 build 2118 wo

RE: Converter for BIG5

2000-09-07 Thread Chris Pratley
u can then save as any encoding by doing File/Save As/Encoded text.   Chris Pratley Group Program Manager Microsoft Word       -Original Message- From: viswanathan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 10:26 PM To: Unicode List Subject: Converter for

RE: Windows 2000 Chinese IME

2000-08-03 Thread Chris Pratley
I assume there is a typo below, and that you mean when you type “ma2”, you want only choices that are “ma2”, and not ma3”, “mashang”, etc.   When I use MS Pinyin 2.0 IME on Win2000, I get exactly 4 candidates when I input “ma2”: 麻 (U+9ebb) 吗 (U+5417) 蟆 (U+87c6) 蔴 (U+8534). Each of these

RE: Unicode and CJK unification

2000-08-02 Thread Chris Pratley
Arial Unicode MS uses CJK glyphs from various cultural styles, so if you need a “pure” font, you would be better off using a font that specifically targets a particular locale e.g. MingliU for Traditional Chinese, and Simsun for Simplified Chinese. Both of these come with Office2000.   R

RE: Arial Unicode MS

2000-08-02 Thread Chris Pratley
You need to install NT4 SP5 or later to fix this. Sent with Office2000 SR1 wordmail -Original Message- From: Dara Becker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 2:45 PM To: Unicode List Subject: Arial Unicode MS Does anybody else have problems with Arial Unicode MS f

RE: Designing a multilingual web site

2000-07-19 Thread Chris Pratley
This makes sense if you realize that characters are just bytes, and you can play around with the interpretation of the bytes as much as you like until one interpretation works. Data in Unicode, however, breaks the (rough) rule that bytes can be interpreted as any codepage. (note that this is a goo

RE: Designing a multilingual web site

2000-07-19 Thread Chris Pratley
This makes sense if you realize that characters are just bytes, and you can play around with the interpretation of the bytes as much as you like until one interpretation works. Data in Unicode, however, breaks the (rough) rule that bytes can be interpreted as any codepage. (note that this is a goo

RE: What I meant by furigana codes

2000-07-03 Thread Chris Pratley
t, then look on the Format menu under Asian layout. Save the result as HTML) Chris Pratley Group Program Manager Microsoft Word Sent with office10ship build 1829 wordmail on -Original Message- From: Christopher John Fynn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: July 2, 2000 11:46 AM To: Unicode L

RE: Mixing languages on a Web site

2000-07-03 Thread Chris Pratley
a few years ago in any case. Chris Pratley Group Program Manager Microsoft Word Sent with office10ship build 1829 wordmail on -Original Message- From: Michael (michka) Kaplan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: July 3, 2000 1:52 PM To: Chris Pratley; Unicode List Subject: Re: Mixing languag

RE: Mixing languages on a Web site

2000-07-03 Thread Chris Pratley
xpress 4/5, etc.). There is almost no documentation in English on how to use IMEs that I know of. The Office2000 Proofing Tools manual has one page for each language, but comprehensive documentation in English does not exist that I know of (I would love to be proven wrong). Chris Pratley Group Progr

RE: Twinbridge & Word 2000

2000-06-27 Thread Chris Pratley
Language Settings applet, then in Word got to “Tools/Options/General/English Word 6.0/95 documents contain”, and select Chinese. In PowerPoint, go to Tools/Options/Asian/Convert font-associated text”)   Chris Pratley Group Program Manager Microsoft Word       -Original Message

RE: Unicode and Indic scripts on Windows (was: Re: FAQ : princip

2000-06-20 Thread Chris Pratley
Small note: All language flavours of Win2000 include the Indic support and input methods Chris describes, not just the one shipped in India. Chris Pratley Group Program Manager Microsoft Word -Original Message- From: Christopher John Fynn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: June 18, 2000 4