Many thanks for your response, Derek.

"Andy's Pali Page" is still accessible from the "Files" directory of this
Discussion Group. He does have an introductory page there on Unicode, but
doesn't seem to have up-graded his earlier programing work to Unicode. If I
remember correctly(??), Windows is UTF-8 compliant (or compatible??), but
actually I am thinking of something that would be working at a higher
level----a set of nested macros, for example. If I do come across
something, I report back here.




At 10:58 AM 8/29/2004, you wrote:

>--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "Alan Sponberg" <saramati@...> wrote:
> > Does any have a program (or even better a set of MS Word macros)
> > for converting text coded for the older Pali/Skt (Norman, Leeds,
> > CSX, etc) to Unicode?
>
>Hi, Alan,
>
>There used to be a fellow around called Andy of "Andy's Pali Page"
>who did that sort of thing, but I haven't seen him around recently.
>Or his Pali Page for that matter. One thing to be aware of -- if
>it's for the web, I recently discovered there are actually several
>different methods of representing Unicode character codes in HTML.
>One method is to use a multi-byte system called UTF-8. See
><http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#utf-8>http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#utf-8
>The other common
>method is to specify the hex value, e.g. & # 301 ; (without the
>spaces). I don't know if these choices would be relevant in a non-
>HTML application like Microsoft Word.
>
>Derek.