[DMDX] Re: special characters 
Yeah, not going to happen, sorry.  The \\u and a number of other unicode 
control words were added to the RTF specification after or during DMDX's 
design and they're real unicode.  It's interesting looking at your file 
because there are constructs like this:

" \\f2\\u20776?\\f1  \\f2\\'97\\'44\\f1  \\f2\\u20772?\\f1  "

It switches back to the 8 bit codes that DMDX can handle (\\'97\\'44) in the 
middle of two 16 bit codes (\\u20776 and \\u20772).  I tried replacing 
\\u20776 with two 8 bit codes that would be binarily equivalent to it 
however that's not how unicode kludges work apparently.  Word and Wordpad 
can display the characters because they are unicode applications (or at the 
very least unicode aware applications), DMDX isn't and won't be any time soon.

At 08:18 AM 3/7/2006 -0700, you wrote:

>Yeah, your file is using an RTF control word DMDX doesn't know, \\u.  I'll 
>see if I can't decipher how to use it but given that it looks like a 
>unicode specific control word and DMDX is most specifically not a unicode 
>aware application and any support it does have for it is strictly smoke 
>and mirrors that Microsoft has built into the OS I don't hold much hope of 
>getting it to work any time soon.  That and I'm pretty busy for the next 
>day or two...
>
>At 04:34 PM 3/7/2006 +1100, you wrote:
>>Hi Jonathan
>>
>>Thanks very much.  The first few trials are Devangari and Bengali, later 
>>ones are Cyrillic, etc, and a few other scripts.  You find them when 
>>making the rtf file in word by inserting special characters, and they are 
>>in the arial unicode font.  I need them for a symbol memory task that 
>>uses letter-like symbols which are not already known to the participant.
>>
>>Virginia
>>
>>
>>A. Prof. V. M. Holmes
>>Department of Psychology
>>University of Melbourne
>>Parkville, Vic, 3010, Australia
>>
>>phone:    61 3 8344 6368
>>facs:       61 3 9347 6618
>>Staff website:  psych.unimelb.edu.au/people/staff/HolmesV.html
>>Laboratory 
>>website:  psych.unimelb.edu.au/research/psycholinguistics/index.html


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