Frank:
As far as encoding goes (not considering input or complex
rendering issues), Word 97 uses Unicode. That is the encoding
it uses in its internal memory representation, regardless of OS
it is running on. Ditto for later versions. The encoding form
it uses is UCS-2; the next version of Word will support UTF-16.
It can also input and output UTF-8.
Peter
From: <fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu> AT Internet on 02/07/2000
01:59 PM
Received on: 02/07/2000
To: Peter Constable/IntlAdmin/WCT, <unicode@unicode.org> AT
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Subject: Japanese Windows Code Page?
In Windows we have a dichotomy between OEM (DOS) code pages
(like CP850) and Windows Code Pages (like CP1252). They mostly
come in pairs:
CP866 and CP1251
CP852 and CP1250
etc. What about Japanese? CP982 is "Shift JIS". Is there a
corresponding Windows Code Page for Shift JIS? No, right?
Also, I have heard it said that certain Microsoft applications
support Unicode to some degree. Looking at just Word, WordPad,
and NotePad, I can see that each of them supports Windows Code
pages (e.g. 1252). If they also support Unicode (and I presume
this would be in UCS-2 or UTF-16 form and not UTF-8), how is
this done? Is it possible only in Windows NT/2000 and not in
95/98/ME? Or, for Word, does it go by Word version, rather
than OS? For example, I don't see anything about
Unicode in Word 97. And yet it seems I can paste Unicode text
from
a Browser Window into Word 97 and much of it remains legible
(Latin-1, Latin-2, Cyrillic, Turkish, Greek, Hebrew,
Vietnamese). But if I paste the same text into WordPad, all
the non-ASCII characters are shown as (random) CP1252 glyphs.
Thanks!
- Frank
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