I was finally able to have a look at this and
a. in Win 7 RC on my old tablet PC, the Private Character Editor does
appear in the Accessories/System tools (so it's not /that/ prominent,
but it is there, at least in the RC version. Unless it was put there as
a consequence of adding a Display Language with an RTL script).
b. Word 2010TP appears no more able to see these characters than Word
2007. I've mentioned that to MS, although I have a nasty feeling that it
would be too much work to modify the Insert-Symbol dialog to consider
doing at this stage.
Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk
On 31/10/2009 19:58, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
So if this has become available outside the Asian Fonts in Windows 7,
maybe Office2010 will be able to see the minifonts it creates. It
explains why Word2007 doesn't. (Just as there are some font-related
things that Word2007 was the first to be able to handle -- such as
Unicode ranges added after v. 2.0.)
On Oct 31, 2:29 pm, Peter
wrote:
The Private Character Editor isn't something I am familiar with either,
but it may/should be there in Win XP and later, typically at
c:\windows\system32\eudcedit.exe
Historically it appears to be associated with systems using East Asian
fonts. It's possible that more people have started noticing it because
its more prominently displayed on Windows 7 menus or some such (I have a
feeling that's the reason I came across it recently).
There is more info. on how Windows treats these characters in the MSD
library at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...02(VS.85).aspx
In essence, the PCE creates small files containing "separate" private
character files in e.g.
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Window s\EUDC\
These files are .tte files and .euf files. I don't know what the .euf
file is but the .tte is essentially a .ttf file /of some kind/. The PCE
also creates the registry entries that specify whether the characters
are "linked" to particular fonts or all fonts.
Then in Character map, if you link to a specific font such as Arial, you see
Arial (on my copy of Vista this is an OT font)
Arial (Private Characters) (appears as a TT font)
If you link the character to "all fonts", Character Map lists a new font
called "All Fonts (Private Characters)"
However, these fonts do not seem to appear everywhere where fonts are
listed - e.g., they do not appear in the font list in the Insert-Symbol
facility. Presumably that dialog box either does not look up the
necessary registry entries and use them, or does not use whatever APIs
make the whole thing transparent.
Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk
On 31/10/2009 12:51, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
Now I don't know what Private Character Editor is, but if it creates a
typeable letter (as opposed to a graphics image), then it has placed
that character into some font or other -- and it must give you the
opportunity of choosing which font you want to add it to. (Perhaps the
font that's selected in Character Map while you're doing it?) Every
font accommodates characters from every range of Unicode (though most
fonts only happen to have characters in a few ranges), including the
Private Use Area, which is an immense collection of empty slots where
any individual can put whatever characters they want.
You've put your PCE-created character into a font, in a particular
slot. So to type that character, you need to select that font at the
point you're going to type, open Insert Symbol and scroll down
(probably to the very end) the display of characters, and there your
character should be. Double-click it, and it goes into your text. (You
can make a keyboard shortcut for it; also, it appears in the separate
bottom line of Insert Symbol so you won't have to hunt for it the next
time you need it.)
On Oct 31, 7:34 am,
wrote:
I have thought about that before but there is no such font in MW2007! or at
least in the one I have!
"Peter T. Daniels" wrote:
You've assigned your character to the PUA in some font. When you open
Insert Symbol and select that font (at the upper left), then choose
Private Use Area (upper right dropdown), and your character will
probably be the one it lands on. (Unless the font happens to have
other PUA characters in it, with lower code numbers!) You can then
click to use it, and/or you can assign a keyboard shortcut to it
(middle bottom).
On Oct 30, 2:31 pm,
wrote:
I suspect what you said is right, but the actual question is how to do it
MW2007? I could not find Private Use Area of Unicode in MW.
"Peter T. Daniels" wrote:
If Private Character Editor assigns a Unicode value to your character,
then presumably Word is using the character that already has that
value. If that's how it works, then be sure to put your newly created
character into the Private Use Area of Unicode.
On Oct 30, 8:19 am,
wrote:
Sorry that's typo I created symbol in Private Character Editor and after that
they appear in Character Map from where you can copy/paste them.
"Graham Mayor" wrote:
I wasn't aware that you could 'create' symbols using the Character Map?
--
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alchemist wrote:
I created symbol/character using Character Map but when I copy/paste
it into the MW document it gives me completely different symbol (some
kind of hieroglyph). What can I do about it? Additionally, I would
like to find out if it is possible to add the character permanently
to the list of symbols in MW?
Thanks
Aleksey-