Word Object Model: Save as Unicode Text - unicode

I know that it is possible to save a document as text with the Word Object Model. (MSDN Link)
It says in the documentation that the number for Unicode Text is "7", which is why I use the following code in AutoHotkey: oWord.Documents(1).SaveAs2(SpeicherortB,7)
(Saves Document 1 of the oWord Application to the location "SpeicherortB" as Unicode (7))
Unlike the documentation suggests, the result is not Unicode though, Asian or Russian characters are not supported. Do you have any idea how to fix this?
For reference: I need to use the Object Model as I am running my code through AutoHotkey.

The MsoEncoding parameter has to be set to the number 65001.
The final AutoHotkey line would thus look like this:
oWord.Documents(1).SaveAs2(filename, 7,,,,,,,,,, 65001)

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Unicode converted text isn't shown properly in MS-Word

In a mapping editor, the display is correct after the legacy to unicode conversion for DEVANAGARI text shown using a unicode font (Arial Unicode MS). However, in MS-WORD, the display isn't as expected for the same unicode text in the unicode font (Arial Unicode MS) or any other Devanagari unicode fonts. The expected sequence of unicodes are provided as per the documentation. The sequence can be seen on the left-hand side table.
Please let me know where I am going wrong.
Thanks for your help!
Does your map have to insert the zero_width_joiner? The halant (virama) by itself is enough to get the half-consonant (for some combinations) and in particular, it may be that Word is using the presence of the ZWJ to keep them separate.
If getting rid of the ZWJ doesn't help, another possibility is that Word may be treating the individual characters of the text string as individual "runs" of text.
If those first 4 characters are not in a single run, this can happen.
[aside: the way to tell if it's being treated as a single run, is to save the document as an xml file and then open it with something like notepad++ and look at the xml "w:t" element (IIRC) associated with these characters. If they're all in separate w:t elements, it means they're in separate runs. In that case, you might need to copy the text from Word to some other tool (e.g. Notepad++) and then copy it from there and paste it back in Word -- that might cause it to be imported into Word in a single run.

Own Emoji Keyboard - Listing all unicode Emojis

i want to create an own emoji-keyboard for an universal app. I need this for the reason of usage on desktop.
So i searched a lot but didnt found something helpfull. I want to show up all possible Emojis.
But i dont really want to use a file or something where i have to manage all the unicodes of the emojis - i want something like an Enumeration (like Symbols in c#)
Is there something like that? I also searched for a method of listing all keys of a font or something what would help.
You can find all official unicode characters in the latest database from unicode.org (http://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/). The file UnicodeData.txt contains all unicode characters including their names and properties.
Unfortunately, the file is not an c++ or c# enumeration but only a text file, so you have to write your own parser for this (but the file format can be easily parsed and is documented).

Get window title with AppleScript in Unicode

I've stuck with the following problem:
I have a script which is retrieving title form the Firefox window:
tell application "Firefox"
if the (count of windows) is not 0 then
set window_name to name of front window
end if
end tell
It works well as long as the title contains only English characters but when title contains some non-ASCII characters(Cyrillic in my case) it produces some utf-8 garbage. I've analyzed this garbage a bit and it seems that my Cyrillic character is converted to the Utf-8 without any concerning about codepage i.e instead of using Cyrillic codepage for conversion it uses non codepages at all and I have utf-8 text with characters different from those in the window title.
My question is: How can I retrieved the window title in utf-8 directly without any conversion?
I can achieve this goal by using AXAPI but I want to achieve this by AppleScript because AXAPI needs some option turned on in the system.
UPD:
It works fine in the AppleScript Editor. But I'm compiling it through the C++ code via OSACompile->OSAExecute->OSADisplay
I don't know the guts of the AppleScript Editor so maybe it has some inside information about how to encode the characters
I've found the answer when wrote update. Sometimes it is good to ask a question for better it understanding :)
So for the future searchers: If you want to use unicode result of the script execution you should provide typeUnicodeText to the OSADisplay then you will have result in the UTF-16LE in the result AEDesc

How to discover what codepage to use when converting RTF hex literals to Unicode

I'm parsing RTF 1.5+ files generated by Word 2003+ that may have content from other languages. This content is usually encoded as hex literals (\'xx). I would like to convert these literals to unicode values.
I know my document's code page by looking for ansicpg (\ansi\ansicpg1252).
When I use the ansicpg codepage to decode to Unicode, many languages (like French) seem to convert to the Unicode char values that I expect.
However when I see Russian text (like below), codepage 1252 decodes the content to jibberish.
\f277\lang1049\langfe1033\langnp1049\insrsid5989826\charrsid6817286
\'d1\'f2\'f0\'e0\'ed\'e8\'f6\'fb \'e1\'e5\'e7 \'ed\'e0\'e7\'e2\'e0\'ed\'e8\'ff. \'dd\'f2
\'e0 \'f1\'f2\'f0\'e0\'ed\'e8\'f6\'e0 \'ed\'e5 \'e4\'ee\'eb\'e6\'ed\'e0
\'ee\'f2\'ee\'e1\'f0\'e0\'e6\'e0\'f2\'fc\'f1\'ff \'e2 \'f2\'e0\'e1\'eb\'e8\'f6\'e5
\'e2 \'f1\'ee\'e4\'e5\'f0\'e6\'e0\'ed\'e8\'e8.
I assume that lang1049, langfe1033, langnp1049 should provide me clues so I can programmatically choose a different (non-default) code page for the text that they reference? If so, where can I find information that explains how to map a lang* code to a codepage? Or should I be looking for some other RTF command/directive to provide me with the information I'm looking for? (Or must I use \f277 as a font reference and see if it has an associated codepage?)
\lang really only marks up particular stretches of the text as being in a particular language, and shouldn't impact what code page is to be used for the old non-Unicode \' escapes.
Putting an \ansicpg token in the header should perhaps do it, but seems to be ignored by Word (for both raw bytes and \' escapes.
Or must I use \f277 as a font reference and see if it has an associated codepage?
It looks that way. Changing the \fcharset of the font assigned to a particular stretch of text is the only way I can get Word to change how it treats the bytes, anyway. The codes in this token (see eg here for list) are, aggravatingly, different again from either the language ID or the code page number.
It is not so clear but you can use the RichEdit control in order to convert the RTF to UTF-8 format according to the MSDN:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb774304(v=vs.85).aspx
Take a look to the SF_USECODEPAGE for the EM_STREAMOUT message.

Apostrophe issue in RTF

I have a function within a custom CRM web application (old VB.Net circa 2003) that takes a set of fields from a database and merges them with palceholders in a set of RTF based template documents. These generate merged letters and documentation. The code essentially loops through each line of the RTF template file and replaces any instances of the placeholder values with text from a database record. The issue I'm having is that users have pasted a certain type of apostrophe into the web app (and therefore into the database) that is not rendering correctly in the resulting RTF file. It is rendering like this - ’.
I need a way to spot this invalid apostrophe in the code and replace it with a valid one. Unfortunately when I paste the invalid apostrophe into the Visual Studio editor it gets converted into the correct one. So I need another way to express this invalid apostrophe's value. Unfortunately I do not know a great deal about unicode and other encodings so I'm calling out for help with this.
Any ideas?
If you really just want to figure out what the character is you might want to try and paste it into a text editor like ultraedit. It has a hex mode that you can flip to to see the actual underlying bytes.
In order to do the replace once you've figured out the character you'd do something like this in Vb,
text.Replace(ChrW(2001), "'")
Note that you might not be able to figure it out easily using the text editor because it might also get mangled by paste from the clipboard. You might want to either print some debug of the ascii values from code. You can use the AscW function to do that.
I can't help but think that it may actually simply be a case of specifying the correct encoding to use when you write out the stream though. Assuming you're using a StreamWriter you can specify it on the constructor. I'm guessing you actually want ASCII given your requirement.
oWriter = New System.IO.StreamWriter(path, False, System.Text.Encoding.ASCII)
It looks like you probably want to encode characters out of the 8 bit range (>255).
You can do that using \uNNNN according to the wikipedia article.