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As installed, these mapping tables contain instructions for creating custom
mappings, but they do not include any actual mappings. To utilize a special
mapping, you must replace one of these files with a file that does contain
mappings for a particular type of encoding. You can find such files in the folders
in the “LegacyMappingTables” folder (inside the “CustomMappingTables”
folder):
Hong Kong: Contains a “chintradbig5.txt” file that maps Hong Kong Big5
characters to Unicode.
Korean: Contains a “koreanmac.txt” file that maps Mac OS X Korean
characters to Unicode.
Taiwanese: Contains a “chintradbig5.txt” file that maps Taiwan Big5
characters to Unicode.
For example, if you have a pre-8.0 project that uses the Hong Kong Big5
encoding, copy the “chintradbig5.txt” folder from the
LegacyMappingTables/Hong Kong folder to the “CustomMappingTables” folder,
replacing the existing “chintradbig5.txt” file (you may want to save a copy of the
original “chintradbig5.txt” file elsewhere). Then quit QuarkXPress, relaunch, and
open the project. When you open the project, QuarkXPress uses the Hong Kong-
specific mapping table to convert the project’s Big5 text to Unicode.
Mapping tables are used only when opening pre-8.0 projects. Once you have
saved a project in the current QuarkXPress version format, the text is in
Unicode and the mapping table is no longer required.
Mapping for projects that use custom characters
If characters in a legacy project use an extended code range, those characters
may display incorrectly when you open that project in QuarkXPress 8.0 or later.
To fix this problem, you can change the way the problematic characters are
mapped to Unicode characters by using a custom mapping table. A mapping
table is a text file that tells QuarkXPress how to convert text that uses a
particular flavor of encoding to Unicode. Each mapping table contains a list of
encoding-specific code points and their corresponding Unicode code points.
To create a mapping table, first navigate to the “CustomMappingTables” folder:
macOS: [DRIVE]:Library:Application
Support:Quark:QuarkXPress[version]:CustomMappingTables
Windows: [DRIVE]:\Documents and
Settings\ProgramData\Quark\QuarkXPress[version]\CustomMappingTables
Within this folder are the following mapping table files:
chinsimpmac.txt: Used for legacy files that use Mac OS X Simplified Chinese
encodings.