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<div>I was surprised at the claim that Word is MS is knowledgeable about internationalization. While they have grudgingly gotten better over the years (I started using Microsoft software with Windows 3.1 Japanese), the last I checked, Explorer still could not handle all of the characters in Lushootseed, the language local to Redmond, Washington! My complaint about this on Microsoft's forum went unanswered.</div><div><br></div><div>Fighting the spell checker, fonts, language settings and other Windows and Office settings is a problem I encounter on a day-to-day basis as I frequently deal with files in Japanese and other languages. Moreover to this day, there are characters that cannot be replaced in Word search and replace. I have learned to be aggressive in searching and replacing those manually.</div><div><br></div><div>Of course the two-letter language codes that Windows offers cannot handle the nearly 7000 languages in the world, so I seriously doubt that Lakota is a possibility.</div><div><br></div><div>My suggestion is to do a search and replace on h-caron, replacing h-caron (no formatting) with h-caron language set to do not spell check. I don't know if that's a possibility, but it's probably your best bet.</div><div><br></div><div>Benjamin Barrett</div><br><div><div>On Nov 14, 2008, at 2:06 PM, Mike Maxwell wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="width: 655px; pos
ition: relative; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; "><div id="ygrp-msg" style="width: 470px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 25px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; float: left; z-index: 1; line-height: 1.22em; "><div id="ygrp-text" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Georgia; "><p style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">Jan F. Ullrich wrote:<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">> We found out that the character is recognized when we associate the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">> text with a different language for spellchecking, for instance<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">> French, but then other characters are not recognized. If we keep the<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">> text assigned to English spellchecking (which is desired) then it is<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">> only h-caron that is not recognized.<br style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">The first question I would ask is, why associate Lakota text with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">English? I assume by this you mean that Word thinks the Lakota text is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">English, but you have somehow substituted another spell checker (else<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">all the words in the text would have red underlines).<br style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">I'm not sure what the method is to tell Word (and the other MsOffice<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">products) that there is a language called Lakota, but there must be one<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">(since Ms is very involved in and knowledge
able about<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">internationalizatio<wbr style="line-height: 1.22em; ">n). And presumably that is where you define the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">word-forming characters of the language.<br style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">This is probably not the right forum to ask that kind of question. I<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">would go to Google groups and look for "groups" that address<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">internationalizatio<wbr style="line-height: 1.22em; ">n (there's an abbreviation, something like in8ion)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">and/or MsOffice. Also search Microsoft's website for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">"internationalizati<wbr style="line-height: 1.22em; ">on".<br style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">Mike Maxwell<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">CASL/ U MD</p></div></div></div></div></span></blockquote><br></div><br>
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