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[Frank Seidel]

Hello,

I do not know, if this will help or not. But you might want to try typing *
^U**nnnn* where *nnnn* is the character code in your search and replace
query. You can find the character code at the bottom left in your character
map.

Hope this helps.

Frank

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 3:02 AM, Andrew Cunningham
<lang.support at gmail.com>wrote:

> Just did a quick test in LibreOffice using padauk font ... typing in
> S'gaw Karen, I could change the font to myanmar3, yunghkio, etc via
> adjusting the styles.
>
> Interesting to note that LibreOffice was assuming that the language of
> the text was Hindi and kept defaulting to the Mangal font.
>
> When modifying the style for sgaw karen text ... i set the western
> font to Charis SIL Compact and the language to English
>
> for the CTL font, i set this to Yunghkio and set language to Burmese
>
> This seemed to work.
>
> Haven't tried in OOo or MS Word yet.
>
> On 23 August 2011 15:33, Stephen Morey <S.Morey at latrobe.edu.au> wrote:
> > Thanks to John, Andrew and Mark for your quick responses.
> >
> > I am indeed trying to do a global search and replace in word, because I
> have
> > Shan fonts in different parts of a lagre text. I do however have almost
> all
> > my Shan text in a separate style. It was earlier in a non-Unicode Shan
> font,
> > and that could be changed to a different font with ease.
> >
> > However, the suggestions you have given me have all been tried, so far to
> no
> > avail.
> >
> > i) When I highlight a bit of Shan text in Padauk font and try to change
> to
> > Yungkhio Unicode, the font does not change.
> > ii) When I alter the default font of the style that contains the Shan
> text,
> > the font does not change.
> > iii) When I try to do a search and replace based on combining the style
> name
> > and the font name, the font does not change.
> >
> > So, what to do next?
> >
> > Stephen
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew Cunningham
> Senior Project Manager, Research and Development
> Vicnet
> State Library of Victoria
> Australia
>
> andrewc at vicnet.net.au
> lang.support at gmail.com
>
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