Re: Windows Cyrillic encoding support in Word 2004

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On Mar 14, 3:09 am, thatcher....@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I would like to migrate from windows to os x but I have been unable to
get the trial version of Word 2004 to read standard windows cyrillic
encoding.

In preference menu I have found web settings that allow for the
selection of windows encoding, but I don't see a general option for
'open/view' using a specific encoding.

Any help would be very appreciated, I am positive that I am not the
only person with this problem.

If you are trying to open an existing Word document you first need to
install the Cyrillic font used in the document. Mac OS X comes with
three Cyrillic fonts: Charcoal CY, Geneva CY, and Helvetica CY. I
don't know if they are complete.
You can see the characters by opening System Preferences, going to the
International panel, selecting the Input Menu tab and enabling Show
Input Menu. You'll see the change in the menu bar.

Now select Show Character Pallette from the Input Menu. When the
Character Palette shows up, Choose View: Code Tables in the upper left
corner, then choose the Unicode tab, then scroll through the list and
find Cyrillic.

As for Word, it should be able to use the Unicode fonts.

On final thing, I use a font called Gentium from here:

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentium_interview

It contains the cyrillic alphabet, is free and works on Linux, OS X
and Windows.

SIL also has other fonts with the Cyrillic alphabet, such as Charis.
They are sharp people and let others use their fonts.

About the encoding settings in Word, they are for Web page conversion
only and don't apply to opening or saving Word docs.

.



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