Chinese language not correctly displaying in Word 2008
Duncan Fowler
Word for Mac 2008 so I could use the translate feature.
The characters do not render correctly in word so I can not initiate a
translation.
I am able to do it in my PC version of Word.
How can I get my Mac Version of Word to behave the same?
Thanks
Dunc
John McGhie
Do the characters register correctly in Entourage? If the character set is
wrong in Entourage, it will be quite obvious.
Have you set the Font in Word to the Chinese font? Standard Unicode fonts
do not have the proper Chinese ideographs.
Hope this helps
On 2/11/08 6:10 AM, in article C53228D8.10845%Dun...@MSN.Com, "Duncan
Fowler" <Dun...@MSN.Com> wrote:
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An easy alternative for getting a translation would be:
Duncan Fowler
was from a Word document.
到我们这里来作客， 祝你们快乐，幸福，安康。 祝索菲亚及全家幸福，
Now, it displays in Word as a series of upright rectangular boxes with a
question mark in the middle of each box. I can choose a Asian font and it
displays but I have no idea if I am choosing the correct one as there are
several that look similar to me.
I can even copy the series of upright rectangles and paste them into an
Email and they display as the correct Chinese font.
I guess I am wondering why Word for Mac does not display the correct font
when it is pasted in.
Is there a way I can make this happen?
Oh, yes, I can do a translation in both Google as well as using Words
translation facility. But I do like to show both the original text and
translation in a word document.. I also find that there are differences in
the translations between Google and the World Lingo translator in Word.
Thanks
Dunc
On 11/1/08 5:27 PM, in article C5330DF9.1A731%jo...@mcghie.name, "John
John McGhie
Because I have a very good friend who is Chinese, some time ago I installed
the optional Chinese fonts.
When I paste it into my copy of Word 2008, your text sets itself to theヒラギ
ノ明朝 Pro W3 font. Some of the Kanzi are in 新細明體 font.
Sadly I can't give you he English name because I don't read Chinese :-) I
will take a wild guess that it's LiHei Pro or LiSong Pro.
Either way, you need to install the Chinese fonts and your difficulty will
go away.
The square boxes you are getting are Word's way of saying "I can store the
Unicode character codes for those characters, but there is no font installed
on your system that contains them, so I can't display them."
If you paste those characters into a different application and they do
display, then we have some more digging to find the problem.
Hope this helps
On 2/11/08 9:40 AM, in article C5325A2F.10852%Dun...@MSN.Com, "Duncan
Fowler" <Dun...@MSN.Com> wrote:
> 到我们这里来作客， 祝你们快乐，幸福，安康。 祝索菲亚及全家幸福，
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John McGhie
One of those fonts is PMing Liu, and the other is HiraMinPro-W3.
She's struggling a bit, because they are fonts from the Apple Chinese
Language kit, and she's a PC girl (from Xiaolan, near Shenzhen, sort of
close to Shanghai...)
Hope this helps
On 2/11/08 9:28 PM, in article C533CC16.1A74B%jo...@mcghie.name, "John
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