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Extended Characters Do Not Export In DOS Text |
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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS
Problem
Symptoms: The customer is trying to place extended characters in the figure captions and export them via DOS text format to other formats, but the characters get changed. Solutions: Any character that WordPerfect cannot translate to the IBM character set is exported as FE Hex. FE is a little square box which is defined as [4,2] in the WP Character set. Therefore, when the file is retrieved, the box (FE) is naturally translated to the WP character [4,2]. A DOS text file can only handle the standard IBM character set (characters 32-126 in WP Character Set 0). Therefore, when the customer tries to save characters that have been created in Character Set 12, WP can only approximate the IBM character to be saved. This also applies to line draw characters, which are part of the IBM extended characters. When a customer exports a WP 5.1 document containing line draw characters as a DOS text file, the line draw characters won't print. |
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