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Robert:
I went to www.microsoft.com, typed "Rich Text Format" in the search
field, and looked up the RTF specification 1.6. (The recent specification
seems to be 1.7.)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnrtfspec/html/rtfspec.asp
There is a section entitled "Unicode RTF"
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnrtfspec/html/rtfspec_6.asp
The section starts like this:
Unicode RTF
Word 2000 is a Unicode-enabled application. Text is handled using the
16-bit Unicode character encoding scheme. Expressing this text in RTF
requires a new mechanism, because until this release (version 1.6), RTF
has only handled 7-bit characters directly and 8-bit characters encoded as
hexadecimal. The Unicode mechanism described here can be applied to any
RTF destination or body text.
There is more to read there, but the gist is that more work may be needed.
Hope this helps,
Wojtek
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Campbell, Robert D (SELEX) (UK Edinburgh) wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> If I save and retrieve a document in Rich Text Format
> I loose the unicode characters (they become '?' s).
>
> Does anyone know if
>
> 1 - this is an RTF limitation
>
> 2 - this is a BlackBox limitation
>
> 3 - there is a simple fix?
>
>
> (In truth, I want to read the file with Word.)
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Robert
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