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Foreign accents not displaying
Dear all,
I am using MS Word 2003. I have a PDF in English with a few foreign ie using Latin characters but with dots, accents etc. When I copy and paste to MS Word, the accents, dots etc are converted to gobbledegook and will not display correctly. any suggestions please?? |
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Hi Uddhava,
I don't have your PDF file, but I found a PDF with lots of accented letters at http://www.typo.cz/euro/_typo/images/letters.pdf. I then copied and pasted the first page of this file into a blank Word 2003 file that uses the Times New Roman font as the default. At first, most of the letters seemed to have lost their accents, but then I clicked on the little Paste Options button with the clipboard icon and selected the Keep Text Only option, and everything looked fine. You should also have the save success with any PDF file that was created with Unicode fonts. The following was copied and pasted directly from my Word 2003 file and faithfully repeats the original source. Albanian çÇ ëË Czech áÁ čČ ďĎ éÉ ěĚ *Í ňŇ óÓ řŘ š* ťŤ úÚ ůŮ Ýý žŽ Danish åÅ æÆ øØ Estonian äÄ čČ öÖ š* üÜ źŹ žŽ Finish åÅ äÄ öÖ French *À â çÇ èÈ éÉ êÊ ëË îÎ ïÏ ôÔ oeOE ùÙ Dutch *À áÁ â æÆ èÈ éÉ êÊ ëË ìÌ *Í îÎ ïÏ ijIJ òÒ óÓ ôÔ ùÙ úÚ ûÛ üÜ Croatian čČ ćĆ đĐ š* žŽ Icelandic áÁ æÆ ðÐ éÉ *Í óÓ öÖ úÚ ýÝ þÞ Italian *À èÈ ìÌ òÒ ùÙ Lithuanian ąĄ čČ ęĘ ėĖ š* ųŲ ūŪ žŽ -- Hope this helps, Pesach Shelnitz "Uddhava" wrote: Dear all, I am using MS Word 2003. I have a PDF in English with a few foreign ie using Latin characters but with dots, accents etc. When I copy and paste to MS Word, the accents, dots etc are converted to gobbledegook and will not display correctly. any suggestions please?? |
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The pdf may have been created with non-Unicode fonts, so when you use
modern fonts that _do_ respect Unicode, you won't see the accents, because in the olden days they had to squeeze them wherever they'd fit into the 255-character limit for any one font. On Aug 3, 11:36*am, Uddhava wrote: Dear all, I am using MS Word 2003. I have a PDF in English with a few foreign ie using Latin characters but with dots, accents etc. When I copy and paste to MS Word, *the accents, dots etc are converted to gobbledegook and will not display correctly. any suggestions please?? |
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Thanks for replies. The PDF document is quite new but Pesach's suggestion doesn't seem to work. I have uploaded a 2 page extract in case anyone would care to try.... http://www.scribd.com/share/upload/1...0ktk4p1qecdxvr thanx |
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The document may be new, but the fonts can be old.
Just a few weeks ago, a professor in India sent me a chapter in Word about Gurmukhi script using some sort of non-Unicode font for the Gurmukhi, in which I see nothing, and no pdf, so I'll have to figure out which letters to type on my own. On Aug 3, 7:54*pm, Uddhava wrote: Thanks for replies. The PDF document is quite new but Pesach's suggestion doesn't seem to work. I have uploaded a 2 page extract in case anyone would care to try.... http://www.scribd.com/share/upload/1...0ktk4p1qecdxvr thanx |
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Sorry I should have said I am using Word 2007 not 2003 in case that makes a
difference. Peter can you tell whether my font is unicode or not? thanks "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: The document may be new, but the fonts can be old. Just a few weeks ago, a professor in India sent me a chapter in Word about Gurmukhi script using some sort of non-Unicode font for the Gurmukhi, in which I see nothing, and no pdf, so I'll have to figure out which letters to type on my own. On Aug 3, 7:54 pm, Uddhava wrote: Thanks for replies. The PDF document is quite new but Pesach's suggestion doesn't seem to work. I have uploaded a 2 page extract in case anyone would care to try.... http://www.scribd.com/share/upload/1...0ktk4p1qecdxvr thanx |
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Not by looking at it; you can tell by opening the Insert Symbol panel
(the Omega icon at the right of the Insert tab, then More Symbols); choose the font in the upper left window. Set the dropdown near the lower right to Unicode. If the choice "Unicode" isn't available, that's your problem, and you'll need to retype the accented letters after you switch to a newer font. The letters with macrons (long- marks) are in the Latin Extended-A group (dropdown at the upper right). If you're going to type a lot of accented letters, you can assign keyboard shortcuts to them. (I use Ctrl-Alt-P, hyphen, followed by the letter, for macrons.) On Aug 4, 8:15*pm, Uddhava wrote: Sorry I should have said I am using Word 2007 not 2003 in case that makes a difference. Peter can you tell whether my font is unicode or not? thanks "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: The document may be new, but the fonts can be old. Just a few weeks ago, a professor in India sent me a chapter in Word about Gurmukhi script using some sort of non-Unicode font for the Gurmukhi, in which I see nothing, and no pdf, so I'll have to figure out which letters to type on my own. On Aug 3, 7:54 pm, Uddhava wrote: Thanks for replies. The PDF document is quite new but Pesach's suggestion doesn't seem to work. I have uploaded a 2 page extract in case anyone would care to try.... http://www.scribd.com/share/upload/1...0ktk4p1qecdxvr thanx- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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