Double-byte characters in mathematical formulæ

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Double-byte characters in mathematical formulæ

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The attached PDF* seems to contain only the Cambria Math font, and I cannot see 'italic' characters (code-points) defined in it.
PDF_characterEncoding.PDFA.pdf
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But if I highlight the text, it comes out as:
"𝐸 𝑟𝑖 − 𝑟𝑓 = β𝑖 𝐸 𝑟𝑀 − 𝑟𝑓
𝐸 𝑟𝑖 = 𝑟𝑓 + β𝑖[𝐸 𝑟𝑀 − 𝑟𝑓]"
which looks italic (but it is not styled as italic!).
When I try to get the ASCII or Unicode character codes, it seems that each character is composed of two bytes.

Partly this is out of curiosity as to how/why this is implemented.

But on a practical level it's a nuisance: I want to be able to copy and paste such things as 'plain text'. I.e. more like
"E(ri) – rf = βi [E(rM) – rf]" and so on.
I would then manually (re)format that to suit my preferences, such as
"E(ri) – rf = βi [E(rM) – rf]" and so on.

I am not aware of a way to readily convert the double-byte 'italic' glyphs to equivalent simple ASCII characters.

—DIV

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Author: Studio Mac
PDF Producer: Microsoft® PowerPoint® for Microsoft 365
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Re: Double-byte characters in mathematical formulæ

Post by Paul - Tracker Supp »

Hi DIV,

I am so sorry we missed your post. Is this still an issue for you? I am not sure of the correct answer myself, but if this is still an issue for you let us know and we'll have one of the devs take a look.
Best regards

Paul O'Rorke
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