From: Tony Proctor on
I've never any of those old systems. However, I have a feeling that Unicode
support was an option that had to be applied to them. Maybe someone else can
say whether that's true or not

One suggestion: run a variation of that bit of code I provided on a file
that just contains some of the problem characters. After the file contents
have been loaded and converted to Unicode, print out their character codes,
e.g.

Private Sub Form_Load()
Dim i As Integer, sFileBody As String

' Load the UTF-8 file body into a Unicode string variable
sFileBody = ConvertUTF8File("utf.txt")
' Remove the leading Unicode marker from the body (i.e. the &HFEFF
sequence)
sFileBody = Mid$(sFileBody, 2)
Debug.Print sFileBody

' Check a few character codes
For i = 1 To Len(sFileBody)
Debug.Print "char(" & CStr(i) & ") =" & Mid$(sFileBody,i,1) & "=" &
CStr(AscW(Mid$(sFileBody,i,1)))
Next i
End Sub

Then check what the difference is between your two systems

Tony Proctor

"MSK" <mannaikarthik(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I am facing some different issue now..Can you please clarify it ?
>
> As I said earlier I am developing some word templates , it has some
> GUI, controsl in that GUI will be filled based on the config file, this
> file will contain some welsh chars. These welsh texts have be placed in
> the in body text of the template.
>
> Now everything is working fine in Office 2003 + XP. but I came to know
> that some (reasonable number) users may access these templates from
> their NT + Office 97 systems.
>
> So I tested these templates from a NT + Office 97 PC, these chars are
> appearing as small square or box.
>
> Do you have any idea ? please pass on your thoughts on this
>
> Is it possible with NT + 97 ?
>
> Many Thanks.
>
> MSK.
>


From: MSK on
Hi,

I am facing some different issue now..Can you please clarify it ?


As I said earlier I am developing some word templates , it has some
GUI, controsl in that GUI will be filled based on the config file, this

file will contain some welsh chars. These welsh texts have be placed in

the in body text of the template.


Now everything is working fine in Office 2003 + XP. but I came to know

that some (reasonable number) users may access these templates from
their NT + Office 97 systems.


So I tested these templates from a NT + Office 97 PC, these chars are
appearing correctly in the Combobox but not in the Word body text and
print out ,appearing liek small square or box.


Do you have any idea ? please pass on your thoughts on this


Is it possible with NT + 97 ?


Many Thanks.


MSK.