Why would it insert Unicode for something like a Greek mu or a degree sign
that are in Symbol Font?
> ----------
> From: Paul Dempsey (Exchange)[SMTP:paulde@exchange.microsoft.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 25, 1999 5:00 PM
> To: Unicode List
> Subject: RE: Code in code out
>
> Word inserts Unicode when the user adds characters that aren't in the
> codepage. This is probably true for anything in the Symbol font. There's
> no
> way to control this. You could open and save using an RTF reader that
> doesn't support Unicode (older version of Word, older richedit). This
> should
> filter out the Unicode control words. You probably also lose the Unicode
> characters that the user entered.
>
> If you're parsing the RTF yourself, you might just have to update your
> parser to handle the Unicode control words (to ignore them, if nothing
> else). Download the latest RTF spec for the details. If it's a properly
> written RTF parser, it should not have any trouble with new control words
> such as the Unicode controls, you would just get an approximation of the
> character in the codepage.
>
> --- paul
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alfinito, Charles [mailto:AlfinitoC@cadmus.com]
> > Sent: Friday, June 25, 1999 1:32 PM
> > To: Unicode List
> > Subject: Code in code out
> >
> >
> > I hope someone can give me the answer to my question. The
> > problem is I don't
> > think I'll be able to explain it well but here goes.
> >
> > I work on a file and save it as RTF in WORD 7.0. If you view
> > the RTF code
> > there is no UNICODE (which is what I want). I give that file
> > to several
> > (say 10) other people. They all work on it in WORD 97 and
> > save it as RTF.
> > Now when I look at the RTF code 9 files are fine but 1 file
> > has UNICODE in
> > it.
> >
> > SO I guess my question are: When does WORD insert UNICODE?
> > How? Why? Is
> > there a way to set WORD so that it will not use UNICODE.
> > Bottom line is I
> > do not want UNICODE in my files. For my purposes it is only
> > a problem.
> >
> > Please help,
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Charles
> >
>
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