Charles wrote:
>Thanks for responding. My problem is this: We deal with
files from all over the world. We get authors' files and they
must be converted (no matter what they are) into RTF format.
We then convert all of the RTF code into ASCII text so that we
can make universal changes to the text.
Until there was WORD 97 we only had to deal with Symbol font,
and the \'hex codes. Now in an RTF file we get \u#### \'hex.
The Unicode creates problems.
Over the past few months I've discovered that the WORD Symbol
font falls into the Private Use (of Unicode) area which was our
main problem but Unicode, in general, is nothing but a problem
to us.
Let me see if I understand:
- you receive files (file format?) in a variety of languages
using a variety of different encodings
- for whatever reason, you convert those into RTF
- for whatever reason, you convert the RTF files into plain
text files (you said "ASCII", but I gather that the character
sets involved are *not* that of ASCII - otherwise you wouldn't
be having *any* problems - and thus that you really mean plain
text using non-standard character encodings)
- in many cases, the files are to be displayed using
symbol-encoded fonts
What I'm still not clear on:
- What file formats are sent to you?
- Why does everything go through RTF? Is it because you are
receiving Word documents?
- If you are receiving Word docs, is there a reason why you
don't simply export as plain text? (Other than the fact that
Word 97 will convert all text formatted with a symbol-encoded
font into "?"?)
Depending upon why you need RTF, and some other factors (that
probably only you can decide) I might have a workaround for
you.
Peter
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