I am using Kayman, and it has solved my problem.
Thank you Peter and Chris.
--- Chris Pratley <chrispr@microsoft.com> wrote:
> I should point out that Word2002 does not actually
> support WM_UNICHAR
> (actually no OfficeXP app does). Only RichEdit 4.0
> (riched20.dll) does.
> RichEdit is used in many places in the system and in
> Office and various
> applets such as WordPad, and likely Messenger, so
> that can be handy but
> it is not universal.
>
> However, the recommended method for communicating in
> Unicode to apps
> including Office is to
> a) use an NT-based OS such as NT4/Win2000/WindowsXP.
> Everything just
> works.
> b) or use the Text Services Framework, which is
> shipped in WindowsXP and
> also in OfficeXp. This is what, I believe Keyman
> actually uses now to
> get Unicode in Word2002 on Win98/Me - or the
> specific Word (object model
> based) method Peter mentions below.
>
> Keep in mind that most OfficeXP installations are
> now running on either
> Win2k or WinXP, and this trend is accelerating. The
> large majority of
> customers upgrade their OS or their entire machine
> at the time they
> acquire major new software.
>
> By the time we ship the next release of Office, the
> % of people who a)
> want to get a new version of Office and who b)
> insist on remaining with
> their old Win9x/ME OS will be very small indeed (not
> zero, I
> understand). Generally speaking, the Office team
> tries to make sure you
> can do everything on older OSes that we offer on the
> newer ones, but
> there is a limit to how much back-porting and
> investment in workarounds
> for older OS limitations we will make . We'd rather
> invest in more
> powerful features for the newer OSes that most
> people are using. So it
> is unlikely we will be improving our multilingual
> support on Win9x/Me -
> instead we'll extend it even further on the newer
> OSes.
>
> Chris
>
>
> Sent with OfficeXP on WindowsXP
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
> [mailto:Peter_Constable@sil.org]
> Sent: March 8, 2002 08:29
> To: unicode@unicode.org
> Subject: RE: Keyboard Layouts for Office XP in
> WIndows 98
>
> On 03/08/2002 04:39:49 AM Marco Cimarosti wrote:
>
> >Lateef Sagar wrote:
> >> How can I create such a keyboard layout that can
> be
> >> used with Office XP (in Windows 98).
> >
> >http://www.tavultesoft.com/keyman/
> >
> >It also works on Win 98.
>
> There are some issues to keep in mind in relation to
> Win9x/Me. I won't
> explain all the gory details (I probably have
> sometime earlier on this
> list), but in a nutshell, for most of the life of
> Win9x/Me, the
> characters
> that could be entered from a keyboard were limited
> to only those in some
>
> Windows codepage, and a given layout couldn't mix
> characters from
> different codepages. Late in 2000, MS added a new
> mechanism that
> involved
> using the system message WM_UNICHAR rather than
> WM_CHAR. This invention
> was quite slick since it could be used without
> breaking existing
> software
> and without requiring any patches to Windows itself.
> With old apps, it
> would just get ignored (not perfect, but not bad).
> All it would take to
> use it is (a) an input method that will generate it,
> and (b) apps that
> will recognise it.
>
> Tavultesoft Keyman will attempt to communicate with
> an app using
> WM_UNICHAR. If the app doesn't recognise that
> message, then Keyman will
> gracefully resort to plan B -- if the developer of
> the particular input
> method included rules for "ANSI" mode as well as
> Unicode, then Keyman
> will
> fall back to ANSI mode; otherwise, it deactivates
> that input method (the
>
> IM can be reactivated when focus is switched to
> another app).
>
> There are not many apps at this point that support
> WM_UNICHAR, but Word
> 2002 is one of them. The other apps in the Office
> suite do not, however,
>
> with the minor exception that the RichEdit control
> does support it, so
> it
> is supported wherever those other apps use the
> RichEdit control (e.g.
> the
> text boxes in search/replace dialogs). (I've been
> told that Keyman can
> be
> used to give full Unicode input support on Win 98
> with Internet
> Messenger;
> I'm guessing it must be using RichEdit.)
>
> If you are using Word 2000, you can obtain an add-in
> ("WordLink") from
> Tavultesoft that will add support for WM_UNICHAR.
>
> One last point: Keyman 5 did not provide support for
> supplementary plane
>
> characters. This will be added in Keyman 6, which
> will be available this
>
> spring.
>
=====
Lateef Sagar Shaikh
Lateef_Sagar@yahoo.com
ICQ: 21341287
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