Hungarian Language support

[John Dough]

There is no documentation on this that I can find anywhere. Have done
multiple Googles!

I asked a friend to translate a letter I wrote in English to Hungarian, and
she sent me back the translation via email.

I then copied the text from the email message in Entourage and pasted
it into a Word document.

All of the instances of a letter that looks like an o with a double
apostrophe over it (if it comes through this is it: ? ) in Entourage
carries over into Wrd as something that looks like a capital O and
capital E squashed together (if it comes through this is it: O ).

How can I get the proper character to display in my Word document ???

I tried saving the email as a text file and then saving it as an .rtf in
TextEdit. Then I opened that .rtf file in Word. This time that ? character
came in as an underscore.

It really is disgraceful that Microsoft has not put anything into Word
Help or even the online knowledgebase which addresses this issue.

I can't even figure out how to get this character in Keycaps....

 

[John McGhie [MVP]]

Hi John:

Your problem is not "Hungarian" per se, it is that Apple doesn't support
Unicode in the version of Carbon that Word X was built in.

Google this group for "Unicode" and you will see a LOT of discussion about
it. Unfortunately, you won't see any good fixes.

However, if you are only after certain specific characters, there is an
outrageous work-around on www.mvps.org/word/mac that will get them for you.
Not easy, and you wouldn't want to do a lot of it, but it works.

Unfortunately one of the laws of American computing is that we NEVER tell
you what it WON'T do, in case someone sues us. I know this: I write help
files for a living. So you simply have to come to the conclusion that if we
didn't say it *will* then sadly, it *won't*.

Cheers

There is no documentation on this that I can find anywhere. Have done
multiple Googles!

I asked a friend to translate a letter I wrote in English to Hungarian, and
she sent me back the translation via email.

I then copied the text from the email message in Entourage and pasted
it into a Word document.

All of the instances of a letter that looks like an o with a double
apostrophe over it (if it comes through this is it: ? ) in Entourage
carries over into Wrd as something that looks like a capital O and
capital E squashed together (if it comes through this is it: O ).

How can I get the proper character to display in my Word document ???

I tried saving the email as a text file and then saving it as an .rtf in
TextEdit. Then I opened that .rtf file in Word. This time that ? character
came in as an underscore.

It really is disgraceful that Microsoft has not put anything into Word
Help or even the online knowledgebase which addresses this issue.

I can't even figure out how to get this character in Keycaps....

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John McGhie, Microsoft MVP: Word for Macintosh and Word for Windows
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[John Dough]

Thanks -

I found out the name of the specific character I want "double-acute o". I
will check out the page you referred me to and if possible write a macro for
forming this character, then post it here.