Changing Unicode Fonts

[Andrew Cunningham]

On 23 August 2011 15:12, Stephen Morey <S.Morey at latrobe.edu.au> wrote:
> Dear RNLD List,
>
> I work with a number of different scripts and have recently converted many
> of my Shan texts into Unicode. I have these texts in the form of Word
> Documents and Open Office .odt format.

Shan Unicode fonts should be interchangeable.

> The font that I had chosen to use has a number of problems associated with
> it, so I thought I would change to a different font which is a little easier
> to look at on the screen. But when I try and do search and replace, to
> change Padauk font to Yungkhio Unicode font, Word searches, claims to make
> thousands of replacements and does nothing. The same thing in Open Office
> didn't work either.

not sure what you are trying to achieve with search and replace.

> Is there some special thing you need to do to change one Unicode font into
> another?

No, data in Padauk, Yungkhio, and Panglong, etc. should be interchangeable.

You only need to do conversions

> With best wishes,
>
> Stephen
>



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