Complex charecter changes when exporting to MS word

I hope someone can help here because I've been mulling over this for a while.
I've been working with some files that were typed using AW 5 and I've managed to open them on AW 6 in os 9 with no problem. the key issue is that I'm using a font called lTibetan. this font creates tibetan script from roman numerals by using complex combinations of of unusual symbols. here's an example.
-a$-’ Ë*!’ [*-’ v-’ [[-
When I export the files to MS word (or even appleworks running under 10.4) using either RTF intermediate, MacLink, html or copied from a PDF, slight changes to the charecters creep in.
when I compare the two formats in a roman font, certain charecters don't translate over, such as the † symbol.
Is there a difference between charecter sets in apple and microsoft that could cause this as I know that appleworks doesn't use unicode? If so, an bright ideas as to how to get around moving obscure symbols between platforms??
many thanks
Steve

Is there a difference between charecter sets in apple
and microsoft that could cause this as I know that
appleworks doesn't use unicode?
I believe there is a difference between the ASCII text character sets used by Apple and Microsoft. The English characters are identical but uncommon characters are different. I suspect this difference is what's happening when converting these Tibetan characters.
If so, an bright
ideas as to how to get around moving obscure symbols
between platforms??
Only to do a Find and Replace for each of the different characters when moving from platform to platform. If this conversion will happen frequently you may be able to automate this process using AW 5 macros or AppleScript on the Mac platform, or Visual Basic on the Windows platform.

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