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homeologica - 25 Oct 2005 13:03 GMT

Yes. On seeing a word document. Chinese chars are written as u99999...
codes. What kind of codification are used here. I must write a program to
create a rtf document in low level using these codes. I found unicode
useless for input chinese chars.

Thanks.

Alejandro Fernandez

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Bob Buckland ?:-) - 26 Oct 2005 13:30 GMT

Hi Alejandro,

You may want to also post this question on language specifics in the Word International Features newsgroup (link below).

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Yes. On seeing a word document. Chinese chars are written as u99999...
codes. What kind of codification are used here. I must write a program to
create a rtf document in low level using these codes. I found unicode
useless for input chinese chars.

Thanks.

Alejandro Fernandez>>

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Tony Jollans - 31 Oct 2005 02:12 GMT

I'm not sure I understand the question. What do you mean you find unicode
useless. Word uses unicode characters and you're stuck with it.

Unicode characters above U+10000 (and the extended ideographs are all above
U+20000 I think) are stored as surrogate pairs of two unicode characters,
the first in the range U+D800 to U+DBFF and the second in the range U+DC00
to U+DFFF.

I'm not familiar with the detail of the RTF format but unicode characters
above U+8000 appear as negative decimal numbers, for example \u-10240\ is
U+D800 (-10240 is Integer representation for 55296 = hex D800).

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Tony

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