Microsoft KB Archive/70019

Incorrect Character Mapping During WordPerfect File Conversion

PSS ID Number: Q70019 Article last modified on 11-02-1994

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WINDOWS

Summary:

Several code page 850 characters do not transfer correctly when you convert files from some releases of WordPerfect 5.0 to Microsoft Word for Windows. (Note that there have been 12 separate maintenance releases of WordPerfect 5.0). The incorrect character transfers occur due to a problem in WordPerfect’s WP.EXE; WordPerfect has confirmed this to be a problem.

More Information:

When code page 850 characters are entered in WordPerfect by pressing ALT+nnn (where nnn represents the character’s numeric code), code page 850 is used to display the character on the screen (edit mode), but WordPerfect’s own internal character mapping (code page 437) is used to store the character when a file is saved to disk. Given WordPerfect’s behavior, the resulting code page character mapping when converting to Word for Windows is the best result Microsoft’s converter can provide.

To resolve this problem, contact WordPerfect Corporation to receive the latest revision of WordPerfect 5.0, and save the affected files before converting to Microsoft Word for Windows.

The following is a list of affected characters:

Code Page 850 Code Page 437 character Equivalent ————- ————-

152 y diaeresis 155 o slash 157 O slash 158 multiplication x 169 registered trademark 181 A acute capital 182 A circumflex capital 183 A Grave capital 184 Copyright symbol 189 Cent sign 190 Yen sign 198 small a tilde 199 large A tilde 207 international currency symbol 208 eth icelantic small 209 eth icelantic capital/D stroke 210 E circumflex - E hat 211 E diaeresis - E double dot 212 E grave capital - E’ 213 dotless i 214 I acute capital - I’ 215 I circumflex capital - I hat 216 I diaeresis - I double dot 222 I grave capital - I’ 224 O acute capital - O’ 226 O circumflex capital - O hat 227 O grave capital - O’ 228 o tilde small 229 O tilde capital 231 Thorn Icelantic small 232 Thorn Icelantic capital 233 U acute capital - U’ 234 U circumflex capital - U hat 235 U grave capital - Y’ 238 overline 239 acute accent 240 syllable hyphen 242 double underline 243 three-quarters 244 paragraph symbol (USA) 245 section symbol (USA), paragraph symbol (Europe) 247 cedilla accent 249 diaeresis accent - double over dot 250 smallest middle dot or small middle dot 251 one superscript 252 three superscript

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