Unicode Issues in Microsoft Word 97 and Word 2000
Peter Constable · 2000
With the introduction of Unicode support in the Microsoft Office 97 applications, the Word application gained some interesting new capabilities. At the same time, some users begun to encounter unexpected behaviour with their fonts and their data, such as text displaying as boxes. This has been especially true for people using custom - built fonts that use non - standard encodings. In this paper, we explore the Unicode - related capability in Word, and look at several of the problems users may encounter. In discussing these problems, we explain the causes, and suggest some fixes. We also consider the direction in w hich the software industry has been heading with regard to Unicode and argue that users should adopt a Unicode strategy to avoid recurrences of the kind of problems discussed here.