Re: Vulgar fractions. was Re: Microsoft Word Query

2001-03-20 Thread John Hudson
At 10:08 PM 3/19/2001 -0800, Alex Bochannek wrote: >This discussion reminds me: Somewhere either in TUS3.0 or on the Web >site there was a comment made about the encoded vulgar fractions being >insufficient for, e.g., U.S. stock market quotes and that one should >therefore use font properties to

Vulgar fractions. was Re: Microsoft Word Query

2001-03-19 Thread Alex Bochannek
This discussion reminds me: Somewhere either in TUS3.0 or on the Web site there was a comment made about the encoded vulgar fractions being insufficient for, e.g., U.S. stock market quotes and that one should therefore use font properties to represent fractions instead. Of course, I cannot find t

Re: Microsoft Word Query

2001-03-19 Thread Peter_Constable
On 03/19/2001 10:46:48 AM Markus Scherer wrote: >Sam Chapman wrote: >> character | UNICODE | converted to >> " 84 22 >> ... 85 2E 2E 2E >> ' 91 27 >> ' 92 27 >> " 93 22 >> " 94 22 >> - 96 2D >> - 97 2D >> (tm)

Re: Microsoft Word Query

2001-03-19 Thread Markus Scherer
Sam Chapman wrote: > character | UNICODE | converted to > " 84 22 > ... 85 2E 2E 2E > ' 91 27 > ' 92 27 > " 93 22 > " 94 22 > - 96 2D > - 97 2D > (tm)99 28 74 6D 29 (tm) Note that these are _not_ Un

RE: Microsoft Word Query

2001-03-19 Thread Peter_Constable
FYI: this is all the items related to text export / import in Word 2000 that I reported to MS back in January 1999. I was testing the corporate preview beta; I later redid some of these tests with the release, and those problems still existed. I've had to remove one of the files that was original

RE: Microsoft Word Query

2001-03-19 Thread Peter_Constable
On 03/19/2001 08:21:39 AM Marco Cimarosti wrote: >I think I see now what Sam meant: if you save the file as "Text Only", >fraction "¼" is actually converted to "1/4". > >I don't know the reason this strange behavior, considering that the "Text >Only" character set on my system is Latin-1, which

RE: Microsoft Word Query

2001-03-19 Thread Sam Chapman
>I think I see now what Sam meant: if you save the file as "Text Only", >fraction "¼" is actually converted to "1/4". >I don't know the reason this strange behavior, considering that the "Text >Only" character set on my system is Latin-1, which could accommodate "¼" >nicely. Yes this is the prob

RE: Microsoft Word Query

2001-03-19 Thread Sam Chapman
Peter, Please excuse this last question as the problem I was having was purely a problem with the method of textural extraction. I've been trying to create a Macro to save Unicode strings from tables as Unicode text files with additional reserved range Unicode markers embedded, after Peter's co

RE: Microsoft Word Query

2001-03-19 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Peter Constable wrote: > On 03/19/2001 04:42:39 AM Sam Chapman wrote: > > >Slightly off topic word query - I'd be grateful for any help > or advice, > > > >I'm curious on how to extract Unicode information from > Microsoft word, It > >appears to apply implicit conversions to numerous characters

Re: Microsoft Word Query

2001-03-19 Thread Peter_Constable
On 03/19/2001 04:42:39 AM Sam Chapman wrote: >Slightly off topic word query - I'd be grateful for any help or advice, > >I'm curious on how to extract Unicode information from Microsoft word, It >appears to apply implicit conversions to numerous characters, > >e.g. 0x00BC '¼' >is stored as >0x00