Dear Maciek, Paul and friends,

what I meant was that MS Word can only correctly convert the standard
ASCII characters. This is based on the very limited experience I had
many years back.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pali/message/7266
MS Word can easily import all WP documents, with the WP 5.x converter
installed. However, even after resurrection, non-ASCII characters
would be illegible.

I hope that with your help, Paul will be able to solve his problem
quickly. What can be done is, instead of sending you a full document,
Paul can send you a list of the Pali (and any other) characters which
need the macro's help, as a WP document. For example, it may look
like:

AA --- @
aa --- ë
II --- í
ii --- ç

It's a simple suggestion. And I shall leave it to you how you want to
work it out.


metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Maciej St. Zieba wrote:

1) Unfortunately, contrary to what Ong Yong Peng writes, MS Word
versions higher (later) than 6.0 (95) convert WordPerfect 5.1 (and
also WPWin 6-7-8-9-10; I wasn't able to check version 11-12)
INCORRECTLY, by default (no doubt, by premeditation). It works
correctly with characters for CP 437 and 850, but incorrectly for
most of other CP's, which means also for Pali characters. Creating a
macro within MS DOS of course can solve the problem but if you are
used to WordPerfect philosophy, you'll probably prefer having macros
within WordPerfect. And believe me, WordPerfect Macros are more
reliable than MSWord macros.