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WordPerfect Office Ideas Portal
Created by Barbara Stearns
Created on Feb 2, 2026

If Corel cannot add Unicode, could you at least add certain foreign characters that we need?

I have been an avid fan and user of WordPerfect since version 4.2. I love so many features, but I work in a foreign country (Romania) and constantly have to use Word as a workaround to import texts because the character set in WordPerfect does not have the correct characters. I wrote to the support team and they suggested adding it as an idea here. Many of us have asked for Unicode to be included in WordPerfect, but it seems to be considered unimportant. So when I finally discovered why imported texts leave blank spaces (they used to be squares or question marks) I felt that maybe just adding the correct characters to the WordPerfect multinational character set would then allow WordPerfect to recognize them. (Most other word processors have the correct letters.) The letters for Romanian are an "s" with a comma below and a "t" with a comma below. WordPerfect offers them with a cedilla, which has a different Unicode number. We use the capitals of these letters, so it would mean adding only 4 letters and would save me a lot of headache, and the frustration of having to use Word to import a file, or hunt for the spaces that WordPerfect left blank. The Unicode numbers for the correct letters are: U+0218 (Latin capital S with comma below) (S with comma is officially correct)
U+0219 (Latin small s with comma below)
U+021A (capital T with comma below) (T with comma is officially correct)
U+021B (small t with comma below)
Please add these letters!

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