Far East Support

Word 2000 contains full support for all Far East features introduced in all previous Asian versions of Word, and so it has the ability to read and write RTF keywords related to such features. All of them should be described in the appropriate sub-section of the Contents of an RTF File section, but details specific to that handling of Far East characters are given here.

Escaped Expressions

An escape expression (for example, \'hh, \\, or \{) is usable in all RTF control words.

Writer:

In general RTF should be written out with all characters above 0x80 in the escaped form, \'hh.

Reader:

When the RTF reader encounters raw characters in the leading-byte range of the double-byte character, it regards the next character as the trailing byte of the double-byte character and combines the two characters into one double-byte character.

Note†††Characters that are special RTF symbols (\,{, or }) should always be escaped, preferably using the \'hh syntax.

Character Set

Word J specifies the character set in the font table using \fcharset. Word J interprets \cpg437 as \fcharset0 and \cpg932 as \fcharset128 if it encounters these control words when reading RTF. If both \fcharset and \cpg appear in the font table, \cpg is ignored.

Character Mapping

Word maps single-byte characters according to character set information (for example, Macintosh to ANSI) and leaves double-byte characters unmapped.

Font Family

ShiftJIS Font Without \cpg or \fcharset

If \cpg or \fcharset control words are not present, Word J uses the text metrics of the font before determining the character set of these fonts. If the font is unknown, Word J assumes it is SHIFTJIS_CHARSET.

Composite Fonts (Associated Fonts for International Runs)

Word J defines control words to specify composite fonts as associated character properties. These control words follow the rule of associated character properties and understand font designation (\af). All other <aprops> are ignored in Word J.

Word J writes out associated character properties in the styles. In the style sheet, the <dbrun> definition should be used for compatibility with applications that have transparent readers.

{\stylesheet{\loch\af5\hich\af5\dbch\f27\fs20\snext0 Normal;}}

If the composite font definition matches the style, only the control word (\loch, \hich, or \dbch) will be used to distinguish the type of run, together with the font information for transparent readers.

{\fonttbl{\f5\fswiss\fcharset0\fprq2 Arial;}{\f27\froman\fcharset128\fprq1 Mincho;}}
{\stylesheet{\loch\af5\hich\af5\dbch\f27\fs20\snext0 Normal;}}
\pard\plain
{\dbch\f27\fs20 \'82\'b1\'82\'ea\'82\'cd}
{\loch\f5 Test }
{\dbch\f27\'82\'c5\'82\'b7\'81B}
\par}

If one or all of \loch, \hich, and \dbch are missing from the style sheet definition (or the character set doesn't match), Word J will apply appropriate fonts to each character run in the style using the bulleted rules below.

If the composite font control words are missing from the character run, Word J will interpret all characters below 0x80 as a \loch run. Characters above or equal to 0x80 will be determined using the following rules:

• If the character is in the leading-byte range and the next character is in the trailing-byte range of a double-byte character, it will be treated as a \dbch run (one double-byte character). For example:

  \'99\'47‡

• If the character is in the leading-byte range of a double-byte character but the next character is not in the trailing-byte range, it will be treated as a \hich run (two high-ANSI or low-ANSI characters). For example:

  \'99\'FF‡ÿ

• If the character is in the leading-byte range of a double-byte character and is the last character in the run, it will be treated as a \hich run (one high-ANSI character). For example:

  \'99\parà

• If the character is not in the leading-byte range of a double-byte character, it will be treated as a \hich run (one high-ANSI character). For example:

  \'FFàÿ
  

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