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From: Chagnon | PubCom
Date: Dec 7, 2016 10:31AM

Vanessa, we have not been able to confirm anything with Microsoft's engineers. Been trying for a few years.

The Word Insert Symbol utility could be accessing Unicode characters, and then again because that's an old tool (created in the software in the 1990s), it could still be defaulting to the original ASCII characters in use back then. Or some could be using ASCII, others Unicode. We just don't know and aren't given character encoding details in Word's "symbol" dialogue box.

Only Microsoft can confirm this.

If anyone on this list is on Microsoft's beta testing team, I hope you'll be able to bring this up with the engineering team and get back to us with their answer.

--Bevi Chagnon

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