Problem with double quote marks in Office 2004

[Guest]

(I initially posted this to microsoft.public.word.mac, not realizing
that this has to be a better group.)

Greetings!

I am using Office 2004 under OS X. 10.3.4. I work with CE docs, and use
the PS Type 1 font Adobe Times Ten CE a lot. We have found that there
are no double quotes in this font in Word 2004, although they are there
in Word X, Word 2001, Word 98, Word 5.1a (the last 3 running in
Classic). Instead, if we look at the right spots in Insert Symbol, we
find an upper-case N-hacek at ascii 210 and an upper-case O-acute at
ascii 211. This seems to occur regardless of the keyboard we are using
(US or say Czech), whether or not AutoCorrect is set to replace straight
quotes with curly one, or any other setting that we can identify.

The workaround we've found is to switch to Times Ten Roman (i.e., not
the CE version). This is a nuisance, since this is a pretty common
character.

Any suggestions as to why this is happening or how we can get it to stop?

George Fowler
gfowler AT indiana DOT edu

 

[Andreas Prilop]

I am using Office 2004 under OS X. 10.3.4. I work with CE docs, and use
the PS Type 1 font Adobe Times Ten CE a lot.

Really? Is there such a creature "Times Ten CE" from Adobe?
I only know Times Ten Cyrillic:

We have found that there
are no double quotes in this font in Word 2004, although they are there
in Word X, Word 2001, Word 98, Word 5.1a (the last 3 running in
Classic). Instead, if we look at the right spots in Insert Symbol, we
find an upper-case N-hacek at ascii 210 and an upper-case O-acute at
ascii 211.

ASCII is a 7-bit character set with only 128 characters. Therefore the
expressions "ASCII 210" and "ASCII 211" are meaningless! You need to
be careful about the designation of character sets since your numbers
(210 = xD2, 211 = xD3) suggest that you actually have fonts according
to ISO-8859-2 aka ISO Latin-2:
<http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/central-european.html2>
<http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO8859/8859-2.TXT>

What you need are Mac Central European (Mac CE) fonts:
<http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/central-european.mac>
Here are some sources:
<http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/central-european.html>