Sandor Juhasz 

I imagine if you press Ctrl+Shift+H you will find there are tags between the m and the 2 as shown in the first two segments below:

You can tell this because the 2 is seen as a separate placeable as the blue underline is broken.  But if you look at my segments #3 and #4 you'll see the blue underline is not broken and the expression can be correctly inserted.

The reason for this is down to how the source file was prepared.  However, I have no idea how to get the squared sign into word without the control tags to tell word how to handle the character.  I tried using Alt+0178 but this also added the tags.  I put the 2 into Word to demonstrate the difference by copy/pasting what's in the language resource template!  So it's clearly possibly... I just don't know how it's done and the most common way is probably to click on the superscript button in Word.

One person who might know... Daniel Brockmann 

I'm not sure what would be a useful workaround as you need to apply the tags to get the superscript in place.  But at least they are handled when pre-translating or auto-propagating:

Paul said:

I have no idea how to get the squared sign into word without the control tags

Hi Paul ,

They may be Unicode characters, like:

Superindex 2²

Superindex 3³

Jesús Prieto 

Jesús Prieto said:

They may be Unicode characters, like:

Superindex 2²

Superindex 3³

Indeed... but how do you get them into Word?  I tried using the unicode codes and Word still adds the control tags around them.  The only way I was able to get them into Word was by copy pasting from the rules in Studio.

Paul ,

Superindex 2 & 3 are in Word. Insert > Symbol:

Then they are extracted without tags in Studio:

Jesús Prieto 

Thanks for that.  Interestingly Word also says this:

But if I add it with the shortcut key the tags are there.  Using the mouse they are not.  I then changed the shortcut key to be Ctrl+Shift+m and this time it works.  Quite tricky I think:

I also tried a search & replace in Word but this is a bit inconsistent too... sometime this happens:

Sometimes I can't find anything at all.  Quite a tricky one to resolve.

Paul said:

But if I add it with the shortcut key the tags are there.  Using the mouse they are not.  I then changed the shortcut key to be Ctrl+Shift+m and this time it works.  Quite tricky I think:

Paul Please note, that the tags are NOT surrounding the superscript number, which would still be strange, but at least would follow some logic. In your case the tags after using the shortcut do surround also the meter and the parenthesis... And this is really strange, as it seems to have applied some font change there.

The symbols (these are NOT numbers) ² and ³ are present on a German keyboard and can be inserted using AltGr plus the number 2 or 3 from the number row above the letters. m² and m³ (a meter with a symbol ² or ³) is being recognized by Studio AFAIR. The combination m<superscript>2</superscript> is not treated as measurement unit, as it is an  alphanumeric string.

This said, I mus admit, that the measurement recognition in Studio is working very reliable for me. To make my life easier I have created some auto correct rules to convert m2 to m² or m3 to m³. Also for 1/4 to ¼ and similar. I also use the option to insert a non-breaking space between number and measurement unit, which works properly too. However, to make sure all measurement units are separated with a non-breaking space from the numbers, I use a search and replace pattern with regex, which does the work for me.

Jerzy Czopik said:

tags are NOT surrounding the superscript number, which would still be strange,

I agree it’s weird… I believe there is some formatting around the letter m (CTRL+SHIFT+SPACE should remove it).

Paul Both input methods work in the same way:

I think this is expected way. Try removing formatting around letter m as mentioned above.

Thanks Jesús Prieto 

I think it's probably my ineptitude attempting to use my laptop without a numeric keypad... something I have always had a poor relationship with!