This message was originally addressed to J METZGER
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        I took your advice and am extremely glad I did.  The MS site had
a short article, not on codepages, but on the use of fields to create
unmapped foreign language characters.  The results are even better than
I would have got had I found codepage support since I don't have to
adhere to the prescribed keyboard layout in the KEYBOARD.SYS file.  The
one shortcoming is that this method will require a bit of work for EACH
font type or size that you may want to use.  For myself, I merely want
to prepare personal letters, so I'm happy with run-of-the-mill Times New
Roman 12 point.
        Essentially, the steps I took were to create a new Document
Template and store each special character as an AutoText entry.
Each AutoText entry can then be mapped to the keyboard in a way that
makes sense to you.  Most of the special characters I need for writing
in Hungarian are supported in the Times New Roman character map and can
simply be mapped to a place on my keyboard.
        There are 4 characters in Hungarian which do not have that
support: the capital and lowercase forms of O-vesszo and U-vesszo
(basically a slanted double-acute mark centred over the letter).
Luckily, this mark happens to be very similar to one found in the
Windows Symbol font at position 178.  Knowing this, you can create the
character the Insert Field command in Word by nesting a SYMBOL field
within an EQ field as follows:
1.      Click "Field..." on the Insert menu to open the FIELD dialogue
        box
2.      Select "Equations and Formulas" under Categories and then EQ
        under Field Names
3.      To create a capital O-vesszo, enter the following text after
        the "EQ" in the Field Codes box:
        O\d\ba6()\s\up3()       (NB: the first character is a capital O)
4.      Press OK and return to the editing screen in Word.
5.      Select (highlight) the newly created field and press Shift-F9 to
        open the formula up on-screen.  You'll now see the entire
        formula, complete with bolded curly braces.
6.      Move the cursor to between the last set of round brackets and
        once again select "Fields..." from the Insert menu.  This time,
        though, select SYMBOL instead of EQ in the Field Names area.
        You are now inserting (nesting) one field into another.
7.      In the Field Codes area, enter the following after "SYMBOL":
        178 \f "Symbol" \h          ( "178" is a double prime in the
                                        Windows Symbol font; the "\h"
                                        is maintain line spacing )
8.      Press OK and find yourself back in the gray field bar.  You need
        to press Shift-F9 again to close the SYMBOL field, then move the
        cursor beyond the SYMBOL field's curly braces, but still within
        the those of the EQ field, and hit Shift-F9 a second time.  This
        will close the EQ field.
JM>You might want to visit
Microsofts web site www.microsoft.com and see if JM>they have any
patches that will do what you want. I know that I have JM>seen a file
for Hungarian there as well as Chinese and Korean and quite JM>a few
other languages.
JM>        j
JM>        jmetz@microfone.net
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