Apostrophe problem

flashlight wrote on 3/25/2003, 12:44 PM
I am having a really weird problem. the apostophe symbol will not show up on screen if I copy it from a word doc. It shows up fine in the edit text box but not in the video preview window. If I go back to the edit text window, delete the apostrophe and retype it it shows up but it looks different. I am using Arial as a font.

Try this as a test on your system. Type - Joe's Car - in a word doc. copy and paste it into a text field in Vegas, and see if it shows up on your video preview. If it doesn't, delete it and retype an apostrophe in the text edit window. Does it show up? Does it look different than the original aposthrophe from the word doc?

Am I on Crack? ....don't answer that.

I have
Vegas 3.0C (latest build) WinXP Pro, Word 2000.
I just bought Vegas 4 but I am in the middle of a project and didn't want to switch just yet.

Thanks,
Al


Comments

Chienworks wrote on 3/25/2003, 1:25 PM
You may not be on crack, but i think Microsoft's Word programmers must have been. When you copy "Joe's car" from word, the character that is copied in place of the apostrophe is 0x3F (ASCII code 63), which is a question mark. The correct code for an apostrophe is 0x27 (ASCII 39). Why? I haven't a clue. Microsoft apparently decided to be their usual weird selves on this one.

Now i'm wondering why the question mark doesn't show up in Vegas. Weirder and weirder.
jetdv wrote on 3/25/2003, 2:34 PM
When you copy "Joe's car" from word, the character that is copied in place of the apostrophe is 0x3F (ASCII code 63), which is a question mark. The correct code for an apostrophe is 0x27 (ASCII 39). Why?

It's probably related to the fact that Word automatically switches to a "curly" apostrophe instead of a straight one.
flashlight wrote on 3/25/2003, 4:01 PM
Here is what I don't understand. The curly apostrophe shows up correctly in the edit text box. On my system, the pasted text shows up correctly and on screen there is no apostrophe, in fact there is not even a space where the apostrophe is supposed to be. it is just "joes car"

Al
Tyler.Durden wrote on 3/26/2003, 9:21 AM
Hi Flash,

I's think's it's a M'S wierdnes's thing's...



What you might try (just to keep moving), is to copy anything you compose in WORD into Notepad. Then paste into Vegas, and your postrophi should be there.




HTH, MPH

Tips:
http://www.martyhedler.com/homepage/Vegas_Tutorials.html

flashlight wrote on 3/26/2003, 3:18 PM
I work at a language translation agency. We get translations in from all over the world all day. I am thinking that it would suck if I have to copy all of this stuff into notepad. Besides, switching formats over and over is a really bad thing for some foreign characters. They tend to dissappear. Is there a way to turn off the curly aposthrophe in Word? Sorry, I know that is not a Vegas question, but I am still stumped as to how it can show up in the edit text window, and not on screen. One of my main reasons for using Vegas is because it uses Windows as its font manager, which means I can copy and paste Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Arabic text directly from our translators documents.

Al
jetdv wrote on 3/26/2003, 3:57 PM
In Word, to turn off the "curly" quotes:

Tools - AutoCorrect. Go to the AutoFormat As You Type tab. Uncheck "Straight Quotes" with "Smart Quotes"