I am using Kayman, and it has solved my problem. Thank you Peter and Chris.
--- Chris Pratley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I should point out that Word2002 does not actually > support WM_UNICHAR > (actually no OfficeXP app does). Only RichEdit 4.0 > (riched20.dll) does. > RichEdit is used in many places in the system and in > Office and various > applets such as WordPad, and likely Messenger, so > that can be handy but > it is not universal. > > However, the recommended method for communicating in > Unicode to apps > including Office is to > a) use an NT-based OS such as NT4/Win2000/WindowsXP. > Everything just > works. > b) or use the Text Services Framework, which is > shipped in WindowsXP and > also in OfficeXp. This is what, I believe Keyman > actually uses now to > get Unicode in Word2002 on Win98/Me - or the > specific Word (object model > based) method Peter mentions below. > > Keep in mind that most OfficeXP installations are > now running on either > Win2k or WinXP, and this trend is accelerating. The > large majority of > customers upgrade their OS or their entire machine > at the time they > acquire major new software. > > By the time we ship the next release of Office, the > % of people who a) > want to get a new version of Office and who b) > insist on remaining with > their old Win9x/ME OS will be very small indeed (not > zero, I > understand). Generally speaking, the Office team > tries to make sure you > can do everything on older OSes that we offer on the > newer ones, but > there is a limit to how much back-porting and > investment in workarounds > for older OS limitations we will make . We'd rather > invest in more > powerful features for the newer OSes that most > people are using. So it > is unlikely we will be improving our multilingual > support on Win9x/Me - > instead we'll extend it even further on the newer > OSes. > > Chris > > > Sent with OfficeXP on WindowsXP > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: March 8, 2002 08:29 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Keyboard Layouts for Office XP in > WIndows 98 > > On 03/08/2002 04:39:49 AM Marco Cimarosti wrote: > > >Lateef Sagar wrote: > >> How can I create such a keyboard layout that can > be > >> used with Office XP (in Windows 98). > > > >http://www.tavultesoft.com/keyman/ > > > >It also works on Win 98. > > There are some issues to keep in mind in relation to > Win9x/Me. I won't > explain all the gory details (I probably have > sometime earlier on this > list), but in a nutshell, for most of the life of > Win9x/Me, the > characters > that could be entered from a keyboard were limited > to only those in some > > Windows codepage, and a given layout couldn't mix > characters from > different codepages. Late in 2000, MS added a new > mechanism that > involved > using the system message WM_UNICHAR rather than > WM_CHAR. This invention > was quite slick since it could be used without > breaking existing > software > and without requiring any patches to Windows itself. > With old apps, it > would just get ignored (not perfect, but not bad). > All it would take to > use it is (a) an input method that will generate it, > and (b) apps that > will recognise it. > > Tavultesoft Keyman will attempt to communicate with > an app using > WM_UNICHAR. If the app doesn't recognise that > message, then Keyman will > gracefully resort to plan B -- if the developer of > the particular input > method included rules for "ANSI" mode as well as > Unicode, then Keyman > will > fall back to ANSI mode; otherwise, it deactivates > that input method (the > > IM can be reactivated when focus is switched to > another app). > > There are not many apps at this point that support > WM_UNICHAR, but Word > 2002 is one of them. The other apps in the Office > suite do not, however, > > with the minor exception that the RichEdit control > does support it, so > it > is supported wherever those other apps use the > RichEdit control (e.g. > the > text boxes in search/replace dialogs). (I've been > told that Keyman can > be > used to give full Unicode input support on Win 98 > with Internet > Messenger; > I'm guessing it must be using RichEdit.) > > If you are using Word 2000, you can obtain an add-in > ("WordLink") from > Tavultesoft that will add support for WM_UNICHAR. > > One last point: Keyman 5 did not provide support for > supplementary plane > > characters. This will be added in Keyman 6, which > will be available this > > spring. > ===== Lateef Sagar Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 21341287 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/
