Chris Pratley at Microsoft has responded to the query re Word97 and UTF-8,
as follows:
>Select this URL below
>http://www.cm.spyglass.com/unicode/iuc10/x-utf8.html
>Edit/Copy
>File/Open (in Word97)
>Paste into the filename box
>OK
>
>It opens just fine. Only issue is that the page does not specify fonts, so
>Word will use the default font for some text (such as Chinese), which does
>not have the right glyphs to display all the characters. To read, apply a
>Simplified Chinese font to the text.
>
>To display the Asian text portions, make sure you have the JPNSUPP.EXE,
>CHTSUPP.EXE, CHSSUPP.EXE, and KORSUPP.EXE language packs installed (in the
>valupack on the CDROM).
>
>The page opened just fine in Japanese Word97 when I tried just now.
>
>Chris
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Misha Wolf [SMTP:misha.wolf@reuters.com]
>Sent: 3 tebp`k 1997 c. 12:28
>To: Lori Brownell; Joe Becker
>Cc: Charles Wicksteed; Unicode
>Subject: Re: Translated IUC10 Web pages released
>
>Joe,
>
>You wrote (I've slightly tweaked your URL):
>>Hello, I wonder if you might offhand have the content of
>>
>> http://www.cm.spyglass.com/unicode/iuc10/x-utf8.html
>>
>>in UTF-16/UCS-2 form? If so, in an accessible ftp site?
>>
>>I just got Office '97 running, and I'd like to load the text into Word
>'97, but
>>at the moment I don't have a UTF-8 => UTF-16/UCS-2 conversion tool (but I
>do
>>have one from UTF-16/UCS-2 to the MicrosoFFFE Abnormal Form used by NT &
>Office
>>'97).
>
>Charles can easily create this for you tomorrow, when he comes in, but are
>you
>sure that Word 97 doesn't read UTF-8? I know that FrontPage 97 does.
>
>Lori - Any comments?
>
>Regards,
>Misha
>
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