Not Unicode Compliant, How To Search/Replace?
The Symbol “font” available through the Insert Symbol dialog is not Unicode compliant (for example, the ® [Registered] glyph in Symbol comes from codes x00D2 OR x00E2 (or their decmial equivalents; two different versions of it!), instead of the proper Unicode x00AE). I need a way to ‘scrub’ all such characters in the Symbol font from text in Word, so that when the text is later flown into a different application and converted to a proper Unicode-compliant font, the glyphs aren’t replaced by different ones. I tried this: 1. Insert symbols using Symbol “font” from the Symbol dialog. (Word 2007) 2. Attempt to Search on that condition (font = Symbol) – but Word does not seem to be able to Search/Replace based on that Symbol font! 3. When I select those characters entered as Symbol font in the document, the font Word tells me they are in is whatever font the rest of the text around them was in – Times New Roman or whatever. 4. When I select those individual characters that were inserted as
