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MS Office Forum / Word / Programming / May 2006Finding Double-Byte Characters
Hello I would like to view some code that finds Double-Byte Characters. I want to remove Double-Byte characters before performing a DeltaView comparison. The code relating to 'Double-Byte' takes a long time to search a large document. Any help would be much appreciated. Regards Mike > Hello > I would like to view some code that finds Double-Byte Characters. I want [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Regards > Mike We can't help much unless you show us the code you are using at the moment  SignatureRegards Jonathan West - Word MVP www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk Please reply to the newsgroup Keep your VBA code safe, sign the ClassicVB petition www.classicvb.org Jonathan Thanks for your interest. Do you have any code to search for Double-Byte characters? If not please do not reply. Regards Mike > > Hello > > I would like to view some code that finds Double-Byte Characters. I want [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > We can't help much unless you show us the code you are using at the moment What do you mean when you say "double byte characters"? Do you mean old-style DBCS strings bounded by SO/SI characters? Do you mean any unicode characters stored as UCS-2? Do you mean unicode surrogate pairs for code points above plane 0? Do you mean any character with an ANSI code higher than 127? Or 255? Or what? What code exactly are you referring to when you say it takes a long time? Perhaps if you posted it we could see (a) what you were trying to do and (b) how it might be possible to improve its performance. -- Enjoy, Tony > Hello > I would like to view some code that finds Double-Byte Characters. I want to [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Regards > Mike Tony Many thanks for replying. The only code I have found is actually in this Forum. To find it please search on 'Double-Byte'. I have used it. It loops through every character in a document. I know that there is a faster way of finding DBCS. I am evaluating a product called DocXtools by Microsystems. It displays a toolbar and jumps from on DBCS to another very quickly. Thier code is embedded in DLL's. What type of DBCS, well I'm not really sure. DeltaView (Document comparison app.) sometimes hangs when it encounters one. Many thanks again Regards Mike > What do you mean when you say "double byte characters"? > [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > Regards > > Mike Help people help you by including the code in your post. It is quite a reasonable request and your telling people like Jonathon West not reply if he doesn't happen to have such code at his fingertips is no way to get help. SignatureHope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP > Tony > [quoted text clipped - 46 lines] >> > Regards >> > Mike It seems I have to register in some way to get hold of docXtools so I'm not going to be finding out much about that. I did have a quick play with DeltaView but it seems to cope just fine with all unicode characters - normal double byte ones and surrogate pairs. The only example code I could find by searching this newsgroup looked explicitly for Hiragani (or Katakana, I forget which now) characters which happen to be 'double byte' (their presence in a document, however, makes the whole document double byte) but are hardly the sum total of double byte characters so I'm afraid I'm none the wiser about what it is you really want. It would be better if you could post the code - without it and/or a fuller description (perhaps docxtools documentation says what it does?) of what you want I can't really help you any more. If it's a simple find and replace as per the code I found I doubt you will find anything faster.and I am surprised you find it particularly slow but I don't know what code in dlls might be doing that possibly goes way beyond what can be done in VBA. -- Enjoy, Tony > Tony > [quoted text clipped - 42 lines] > > > Regards > > > Mike Tony Many thanks for your detailed reply. However, I am assured by the Microsystems (DocX) people that DBCS will occasionally cause DeltaView (DV) version 2.x to hang. I run a VBA tool on approx. 5,000 documents. It extracts various items of information on each document, Revisions, Char styles, Broken styles, DV Bookmarks & Styles etc. Adding DBCS to the list would have helped to narrow down the problem areas users encounter when performing DeltaView comparisons. I'll speak to the DocX Developers and try and ask a bit more about thier DBCS search tool. Once again many thanks for your time. Regards Mike > It seems I have to register in some way to get hold of docXtools so I'm not > going to be finding out much about that. [quoted text clipped - 75 lines] > > > > Regards > > > > Mike Mike Faulkner was telling us: Mike Faulkner nous racontait que : > Tony > > Many thanks for replying. The only code I have found is actually in > this Forum. To find it please search on 'Double-Byte'. I have used > it. It loops through every character in a document. Let me see if I can get this straight.. You need help, two very knowledgeable people offer to help. You were rude with one, and told the other to search the group to find examples of what you mean? Jeezz... the nerves... You were very lucky that Tony decided to ignore all this and ploughed on with offering help. I understand that you might be busy... but... next time, I might suggest that you were a but more considerate to those who give up part of their free time to help others... SignatureSalut! _______________________________________ Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP jmarcilREMOVE@CAPSsympatico.caTHISTOO Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org My sentiments exactly :-) A wildcard search would be fast, too. Say "Match wildcards", Find what: [!^001-^0255] I can't imagine that any Word add-in in a halfway recent version (post-97) has general problems with Unicode, though. You might try to find out which specific characters, if any, DeltaView has problems with. Regards Klaus > Mike Faulkner was telling us: > Mike Faulkner nous racontait que : [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > that you were a but more considerate to those who give up part of their > free time to help others... Klaus Many thanks for your advice. Workshare (DeltaView) are reluctant to reveal what stops it's product and 'hangs' Word. MicroSystems (DocXtools) insist that DBCS cause Comparison problems. Their Toolbar is very fast on a 150 page document. However, it's possible that their Discovery (DocXtools) Bookmarks the DBCS's and the toolbar simply jumps from one bookmark to the next. This would explain why it takes 5 minutes to 'Discover' a 150 page document. It's looping through every character and testing whether it's a DBCS. Regards Mike > My sentiments exactly :-) > [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > that you were a but more considerate to those who give up part of their > > free time to help others... What I note about this is the consistent use of the terms "Double Byte" and "DBCS", rather than Unicode, and I wonder whether this is the real issue. I can well imagine that modern products could get hung up with 'old' DBCS data. -- Enjoy, Tony > Klaus > [quoted text clipped - 54 lines] > > > jmarcilREMOVE@CAPSsympatico.caTHISTOO > > > Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org Tony Many thanks for replying. Now I understand why Microsystems(DocXtools) insist that DBCS can interfere with Comparison tools. Approx. 80% of our documents are copies (Dupe & Revise) of old documents. This practise ensures that old problems/issues, like DBCS, are continually carried forward. DocXtools has identified 5 DBCS in a document this morning. They are 'blobs' (large fullstop) and are visible. The Word Symbol chart identifies them as - SPACE, Character Code: 32, from: ASCII(decimal). Regards Mike > What I note about this is the consistent use of the terms "Double Byte" and > "DBCS", rather than Unicode, and I wonder whether this is the real issue. I [quoted text clipped - 70 lines] > > > > jmarcilREMOVE@CAPSsympatico.caTHISTOO > > > > Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org |
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