Re: Open html as source

Hi Tobias:

OK, so Open as "Text" and see if you can see what is wrong with the header:
change it, re-save it...

I have a horrible feeling you are running into a built-in limitation of
Word X -- Word X can't display most Unicode.

It would appear that the document might be coded for a double-byte character
set (e.g. a Japanese font). If so, those underscores show that it's
recognising the charset tag perfectly, but Word X can't display those
characters! Word 2004 "can".

I see in a second post you admitted the thing is in Japanese :-) Sorry:
You are going to struggle with that in Word X. Time to upgrade (wait for
2008 -- it will be further improved in its ability to do HTML-y and
Unicode-y things).

Cheers

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"Tobias Weber" <towb@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:towb-9D9464.14041930042007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <#kr1dUwiHHA.2408@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"John McGhie [MVP Word, Word Mac]" <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Well, Word does not neet to recognise the "Meta tag", it's the CharSet
tag

I'm sure we both mean <meta http-equiv="content-type"
content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

it needs to get hold of. It should recognise that OK, provided that the

It does when displaying rendered html. "View source" shows wide
characters as two symbols, so I suppose it forgot that it's UTF8.

content really is UTF-8.

It is, although sans BOM.

And there is a way around it: Set Word>Preferences>General> "Confirm
conversions at open" to ON, then use File>Open (MUST be from within Word)
to

That's what I was looking for. Thanks!

open the file. You will then get a dialog asking you what format the
file
is in. Choose UTF-8 at that point.

There is no UTF-8 in the list, only "Unicode Text", which apparently
expects UFT-16 as my document comes out as only underscores.

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Tobias Weber


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