ref.: Russian document

[julio fernandez]

Hi there:
Hope somebody can help me. I can write in russian on a word document,
but if i open a document that is wrote in russian, then only appears
underline characters and no letters.... Any idea? Thanks

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP]]

Hi there:
Hope somebody can help me. I can write in russian on a word document,
but if i open a document that is wrote in russian, then only appears
underline characters and no letters.... Any idea? Thanks

The problem probably is that you need to have Unicode support to open
these documents. It is coming in Word 2004, but I don't see how you can
get it in Word X.
A possible workaround would be to open the files in TextEdit if you have
MacOS X 10.3.


Corentin

 

[Gary Goldberg]

Hi there:
Hope somebody can help me. I can write in russian on a word document,
but if i open a document that is wrote in russian, then only appears
underline characters and no letters....

What Cyrillic fonts do you have? I find that PryamojProp opens most
Cyrillic files, although files created on Russian versions of
Windows require some sort of Cyrillic conversion utility.

There is a language pack in OS 9.1 (which I use) which gave
me Unicode support.

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

What Cyrillic fonts do you have? I find that PryamojProp opens most
Cyrillic files, although files created on Russian versions of
Windows require some sort of Cyrillic conversion utility.

There is a language pack in OS 9.1 (which I use) which gave
me Unicode support.

It's not Unicode support. But it is Cyrillic support. There are some
languages (Thai, Greek with accents) and lots of characters in other
languages (Chinese, Japanese) which are still not implemented or for which
no language pack exists. But there are language packs in OS 9 for Cyrillic,
Easterm European, etc. They may still not work with Windows fonts. They work
by approximating glyphs to a certain subset of Macintosh "internationa;"
styled text. Unicode support in OS 10.3 is infinitely better, and will be in
Office 2004 as well.

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[Gary Goldberg]

It's not Unicode support. But it is Cyrillic support. There are some
languages (Thai, Greek with accents) and lots of characters in other
languages (Chinese, Japanese) which are still not implemented or for which
no language pack exists. But there are language packs in OS 9 for Cyrillic,
Easterm European, etc. They may still not work with Windows fonts. They work
by approximating glyphs to a certain subset of Macintosh "internationa;"
styled text. Unicode support in OS 10.3 is infinitely better, and will be in
Office 2004 as well.

Well, there's a Unicode script in the OS 9.1 Language Pack

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

Well, there's a Unicode script in the OS 9.1 Language Pack

It's pretend Unicode as far as Word is concerned. Word pre-2004 can't do
real Unicode - glyphs for which no approximate "Mac international style"
character is available (thousands of Chinese characters, Thai, Greek with
accents, etc. fall into this "no Mac international style character
available"). I don't know which, if any, Mac OS 9 apps would behave
differently. AFAIK, it's just a Unicode encoding for the characters for
which "Mac international style" characters _are_available. The situation is
very different in OS X, especially 10.2 and 10.3, for which there are many
apps, other than Word, which do true Unicode (e.g. TextEdit), built into the
OS. But it wasn't in the OS early enough (i.e. pre 10.1) when Word X was
being developed. Unicode will be in Word 2004.

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