Thanks to all for your comments on the problem of copying a Hebrew phrase from
Adobe to Word.
The Hebrew phrase is מהלך חמה הבינוני בשנים מחוברות ופרוטות וחדשים
I have had another look at the problem, with these results.
Copy from Adobe Acrobat 6 (with Select text):
Paste into Word as rtf -
On Thu, 7 Feb 2013, Raymond Mercier wrote:
> I am using the full commercial Adobe Acrobat version 6, running on XP.
> If there is more than one word, the order of words IS correct,
> but the order of characters in each word is reversed.
(I don't know about your program.)
You can find out how char
And just how long is it going to be before some archivist realizes that
you're talking about "Adobe", not "Abode"?
Peter
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Albrecht notes that
The complete RTF clipboard content is this, created by "Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro,
Version 9.5.1":
: 7B 5C 72 74 66 31 5C 61 6E 73 69 5C 61 6E 73 69 {\rtf1\ansi\ansi
0010: 63 70 67 31 32 35 32 5C 75 63 31 20 7B 5C 66 6F cpg1252\uc1 {\fo
0020: 6E 74 74 62 6C 5C 66 30 5C 66
Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2013 9:28 PM
To: Murray Sargent
Cc: Dreiheller, Albrecht; Raymond Mercier; unicode@unicode.org
Subject: Re: Word reversal from Abobe to Word
How come I'm not surprised to see the problem traced to an RTF format
incompatibility. Trying to figure out which parts of
Mercier; unicode@unicode.org
Subject: Re: Word reversal from Abobe to Word
How come I'm not surprised to see the problem traced to an RTF format
incompatibility. Trying to figure out which parts of the RTF spec to support
when is nearly impossible...
A./
On 2/7/2013 8:08 AM, Murray Sa
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From: unicode-bou...@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bou...@unicode.org] On Behalf
Of Dreiheller, Albrecht
Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2013 7:33 AM
To: Raymond Mercier; unicode@unicode.org
Subject: RE: Word reversal from Abobe to Word
Raymond,
If I have a Hebrew text displayed in A
lbrecht<mailto:albrecht.dreihel...@siemens.com>
Cc: Raymond Mercier<mailto:rm...@cam.ac.uk>;
unicode@unicode.org<mailto:unicode@unicode.org>
Subject: Re: Word reversal from Abobe to Word
The Windows clipboard is a "multi-channel" medium, i.e. several different da
> The Windows clipboard is a "multi-channel" medium, i.e. several different
> data formats
> may be supplied at the same time by the sending application.
> The receiving application may choose one of these formats.
>
> Using a clipboard debugging tool, I see that Word fills up to 18 formats
That'
7;E3\u1502 \'EE}
}
This displays as קודמ
Murray
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From: unicode-bou...@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bou...@unicode.org] On Behalf
Of Dreiheller, Albrecht
Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2013 7:33 AM
To: Raymond Mercier; unicode@unicode.org
Subject: RE: Word reversa
Raymond,
> If I have a Hebrew text displayed in Adobe Acrobat I can select part of
> it and can paste it into Word. The trouble is that while individual
> characters are correctly displayed the order is reversed.
> Thus if I have
> in Acrobat
> קודמ (meaning 'prior')
> when pasted into Word I ge
Raymond Mercier, Thu, 7 Feb 2013 12:29:11 -:
> I am using the full commercial Adobe Acrobat version 6, running on XP.
Perhaps latest version for XP, either the gratis Adobe Reader 11
(formerly Acrobat Reader) or the commercial upgrade, Adobe Acrobat 11,
works better?
And there is also the
From: "Jukka K. Korpela"
Do you mean the commercial Adobe Acrobat software for creating PDF
documents, or the free Adobe Reader (previously called Adobe Acrobat
Reader) for viewing and printing (and commenting on) PDF documents? <<
I am using the full commercial Adobe Acrobat version 6, runn
2013-02-07 12:21, Raymond Mercier wrote:
This problem is not precisely about Unicode - or is it?
Directionality of characters is a Unicode issue.
If I have a Hebrew text displayed in Adobe Acrobat I can select part of
it and can paste it into Word. The trouble is that while individual
charac
This problem is not precisely about Unicode - or is it?
If I have a Hebrew text displayed in Adobe Acrobat I can select part of it
and can paste it into Word. The trouble is that while individual characters
are correctly displayed the order is reversed. Thus if I have in Acrobat
קודמ (meaning '
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