Foreign accents not displaying

[Uddhava]

Dear all,

I am using MS Word 2003. I have a PDF in English with a few foreign ie using
Latin characters but with dots, accents etc. When I copy and paste to MS
Word, the accents, dots etc are converted to gobbledegook and will not
display correctly.

any suggestions please??

 

[Pesach Shelnitz]

Hi Uddhava,

I don't have your PDF file, but I found a PDF with lots of accented letters
at http://www.typo.cz/euro/_typo/images/letters.pdf. I then copied and pasted
the first page of this file into a blank Word 2003 file that uses the Times
New Roman font as the default. At first, most of the letters seemed to have
lost their accents, but then I clicked on the little Paste Options button
with the clipboard icon and selected the Keep Text Only option, and
everything looked fine. You should also have the save success with any PDF
file that was created with Unicode fonts.

The following was copied and pasted directly from my Word 2003 file and
faithfully repeats the original source.

Albanian
çÇ ëË
Czech
áà ÄÄŒ ÄÄŽ éÉ ěĚ íà ňŇ óÓ řŘ Å¡Å  ťŤ úÚ ůŮ Ãý žŽ
Danish
åÅ æÆ øØ
Estonian
äÄ ÄÄŒ öÖ Å¡Å  üÜ źŹ žŽ
Finish
åÅ äÄ öÖ
French
àÀ â çÇ èÈ éÉ êÊ ëË îÎ ïà ôÔ oeOE ùÙ
Dutch
àÀ áà â æÆ èÈ éÉ êÊ ëË ìÌ íà îÎ ïà ijIJ òÒ óÓ ôÔ ùÙ
úÚ ûÛ üÜ
Croatian
ÄÄŒ ćĆ Ä‘Ä Å¡Å  žŽ
Icelandic
áà æÆ ðà éÉ íà óÓ öÖ úÚ ýà þÞ
Italian
àÀ èÈ ìÌ òÒ ùÙ
Lithuanian
Ä…Ä„ ÄÄŒ ęĘ Ä—Ä– Å¡Å  ųŲ ūŪ žŽ

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

The pdf may have been created with non-Unicode fonts, so when you use
modern fonts that _do_ respect Unicode, you won't see the accents,
because in the olden days they had to squeeze them wherever they'd fit
into the 255-character limit for any one font.

 

[Uddhava]

Thanks for replies. The PDF document is quite new but Pesach's suggestion
doesn't seem to work. I have uploaded a 2 page extract in case anyone would
care to try....


http://www.scribd.com/share/upload/14195004/23vt9r0ktk4p1qecdxvr

thanx

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

The document may be new, but the fonts can be old.

Just a few weeks ago, a professor in India sent me a chapter in Word
about Gurmukhi script using some sort of non-Unicode font for the
Gurmukhi, in which I see nothing, and no pdf, so I'll have to figure
out which letters to type on my own.

 

[Uddhava]

Sorry I should have said I am using Word 2007 not 2003 in case that makes a
difference.

Peter can you tell whether my font is unicode or not?

thanks

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

Not by looking at it; you can tell by opening the Insert Symbol panel
(the Omega icon at the right of the Insert tab, then More Symbols);
choose the font in the upper left window. Set the dropdown near the
lower right to Unicode. If the choice "Unicode" isn't available,
that's your problem, and you'll need to retype the accented letters
after you switch to a newer font. The letters with macrons (long-
marks) are in the Latin Extended-A group (dropdown at the upper
right). If you're going to type a lot of accented letters, you can
assign keyboard shortcuts to them. (I use Ctrl-Alt-P, hyphen, followed
by the letter, for macrons.)