Handling symbols.

[keerthi]

Hi All,
While trying to extract the contents from a (docx) document, i am facing a challenge in converting the symbols inserted through "Insert Symbol" feature. The document.xml file has the following contents for the symbol α (alpha).

<w:r w:rsidR="00A223B5" w:rsidRPr="00675051"><w:rPr><w:rFonts w:cs="Arial"/><w:szCs w:val="22"/></w:rPr><w:fldChar w:fldCharType="begin"/></w:r><w:r w:rsidR="00231886" w:rsidRPr="00675051"><w:rPr><w:rFonts w:cs="Arial"/><w:szCs w:val="22"/></w:rPr><w:instrText>symbol 97 \f "Symbol" \s 11</w:instrText></w:r><w:r w:rsidR="00A223B5" w:rsidRPr="00675051"><w:rPr><w:rFonts w:cs="Arial"/><w:szCs w:val="22"/></w:rPr><w:fldChar w:fldCharType="end"/></w:r>

Please help me to convert this data to a string value. In this case, "α" (alpha).

Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Keerthi. G

[jason]

As you can see, your symbol is in

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<w:instrText>symbol 97 \f "Symbol" \s 11</w:instrText>

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Presumably it is character 97 in the symbol font.

What encoding are you using for your string? Does the question just come down to how to map characters from the Symbol font to say UTF 8?

A quick way to convert may be to save as HTML from with Word.

Let us know what you discover.

[dazzfayaz]

Hi,

I am not able to get few symbols in docx but those symbols are there in the document.xml
help me what to do for supporting symbols.
Attached is the docx which is having the symbols for ⊥ ⊇ but in docx these symbols are displaying as not known symbols.

Thanks

[jason]

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                    <w:r>
                        <w:rPr>
                            <w:rFonts w:ascii="Cambria Math" w:hAnsi="Cambria Math" w:cs="Cambria Math"/>
                        </w:rPr>
                        <w:t>⊥ ⊇</w:t>
                    </w:r>
 

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[jason]

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org.docx4j.wml.ObjectFactory wmlObjectFactory = new org.docx4j.wml.ObjectFactory();

R r = wmlObjectFactory.createR();
    // Create object for rPr
    RPr rpr = wmlObjectFactory.createRPr();
    r.setRPr(rpr);
        // Create object for rFonts
        RFonts rfonts = wmlObjectFactory.createRFonts();
        rpr.setRFonts(rfonts);
            rfonts.setAscii( "Cambria Math");
            rfonts.setCs( "Cambria Math");
            rfonts.setHAnsi( "Cambria Math");
    // Create object for t (wrapped in JAXBElement)
    Text text = wmlObjectFactory.createText();
    JAXBElement<org.docx4j.wml.Text> textWrapped = wmlObjectFactory.createRT(text);
    r.getContent().add( textWrapped);
        text.setValue( "⊥ ⊇");

 

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