unicode mystery

[Alex Rice]

Martin von Loewis wrote:
 
> When you say "out of Word and Python", what do you mean? Word has no
> integrated Python support, nor does standard Python provide a Word
> module. So I assume that you use the Word automation interface, right?

Hi, I'm using Python to access the COM interface to MSWord.

> No, neither does something wrong. Microsoft has all rights to use the
> private use area of Unicode; this is precisely what it was designed
> for. Unfortunately, by nature, two different interpretations of the
> private use area are likely incompatible.

I didn't realize until Paul's post that Symbol is a non-Unicode font,
which explains a lot of the behavior I'm seeing.

Thanks for your suggestions. This is helpful.

Alex