Hi Benjamin,
Reporting a bug to Microsoft is much easier with steps to reproduce it
As I mentioned the Long Vowel option is on with Japanese enabled in Word 2007.
The only variable regarding Word that had been so far noted that isn't common with the others of us who are trying to duplicate this
is the Trados (or another add-in) that you're using, so being able to eliminate that from the equation is important.
From your last reply it appears that we can rule out the Microsoft IME as the text in your document (as shown on the status bar at
the bottom of the Word window, and a check of the Style definition for the d- text) is listed as English rather than Japanese?.
Does the issue occur if you start Word in safe mode (holding the ctrl key)?
If I have the Research pane on, using the Translate, coice from
Review=>Translate
the English to Japanese translation is listing the d hyphen as d long dash.
If in the Research Pane=>Translation you look at 'Translation options' does it show Trados or World Lingo as the translation
service?
Do you have a blog/free online storage space/website, etc where you can put a copy of your document that we could look at?
Microsoft (among others, offers free sites and separately, from
http://officelabs.com the 'community clips' recorder that you can
use to show the settings and the steps.
The Adobe download is interesting, which may also indicate a factor outside of Word. I've seen that before where the download was
being based on either (a) the last/active language or (b) If IP address is a non-U.S. one and the updates are using that as a
criteria. (I'm assuming the base language version of Windows and Office are English.
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No, it's "d-". My region is the US, my font is TNR, my IME is English, etc.
To try and replicate, I recommend checking the long vowels option.
In any case, I think it's clear that this is part of the language bug that
Microsoft has ignored for so many years. I personally have spent hours and
hours reporting and dealing with this and other problems related to the
language bug. (Just two days ago, Adobe downloaded in Japanese even though
all my regional settings and XP system is English.) Like everyone else, I'm
sure, I take time off from work to report these problems. But since Microsoft
doesn't pay me and they won't fix the bug, I think I need to stop wasting my
and everyone else's time and just get back to work.
I really do appreciate all of the kind responses, but it's a big
disappointment.
I have a long series of workarounds I used to combat the language bug.
Perhaps one day Microsoft will decide to address this syndrome. >>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP
*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
