Unicode Reading

[Subbu]

Hi All,

Clarification regarding office 2000:
Can you please suggest how to eliminate the high and low ansii codes like
\hich, \loch,\dbch, etc appearing in rtf file format while saving the file.
Is there any option in office 2000 to eliminate such codes.


Clarification regarding office 2003:
Is there any option to save the unicode symbols appearing in doc file in
hexa decimal format(representing the unicode) or entities while saving as
xml file using office 2003.?
Rightnow all symbols inserted from "Normal text font"(any unicode based
fonts) appear as character itself in the xml file while the symbols inserted
from "symbol font"(or any non-standard font) appear as entities in
hexadecimal format representing the ascii value.

with regards,
shubha

 

[Klaus Linke]

Hi Subbu,

You can try to play around with "Tools > Web options > Encoding" in the FileSaveAs dialog, which influences the way those characters are encoded in XML (and perhaps RTF, too).
I usually parse the file and change the symbols and Unicode characters to the tags/encoding I want to have with a macro.

Symbols from symbol fonts are encoded differently, depending on whether they have been inserted from the keyboard (choosing the symbol font from the font dropdown) or from the "Insert > Symbol" dialog.
You can search the Word newsgroups for macros "SymbolsProtect", "SymbolsUnprotect" to change between the two forms.

Regards,
Klaus

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Mac]]

1) No.

2) Play around with File>Save As>Tools>Web Options. By changing your
encoding style you will alter the internal expression on non-ASCII
characters.

3) This is the wrong group for this question: we do Macintosh Word here,
which does not have user-customisable XML.

Cheers

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