Russian text will not display like TextEdit

[Morgan]

Howdy,
I have a translated English to Russian document in two-column format
created on a PC. Normally I am able to bring documents like this into
Word and see the translation, but with Russian, Greek, Hungarian, etc.
I am not able to see the translated text. It is just a jumble of
incorrect characters. So I have to resort to opening the document in
TextEdit where the characters are displayed correctly, but
unfortunately not in two column format which makes it difficult to see
which text matches with the origianl English.

Does anyone know how I can make Word display the text in two column
format and still retain the correct text? Please, any suggestions.

Thanks,
Morgan

 

[Alan Wood]

I have a translated English to Russian document in two-column format
created on a PC. Normally I am able to bring documents like this into
Word and see the translation, but with Russian, Greek, Hungarian, etc.
I am not able to see the translated text. It is just a jumble of
incorrect characters. So I have to resort to opening the document in
TextEdit where the characters are displayed correctly, but
unfortunately not in two column format which makes it difficult to see
which text matches with the origianl English.

Does anyone know how I can make Word display the text in two column
format and still retain the correct text? Please, any suggestions.

Word for Windows uses Unicode for non-Latin scripts and many special
characters.

Word for Mac (up to and including Word v. X) is not very good at displaying
Unicode characters.

Word 2004 for Mac should be able to do what you want, and it should be out
soon.

You could try Nisus Writer Express, which can read Word files and
understands Unicode. I don't know if it does columns yet.
http://www.nisus.com

 

[Andreas Prilop]

I have a translated English to Russian document in two-column format
created on a PC. Normally I am able to bring documents like this into
Word and see the translation, but with Russian, Greek, Hungarian, etc.
I am not able to see the translated text. It is just a jumble of
incorrect characters. So I have to resort to opening the document in
TextEdit where the characters are displayed correctly, but
unfortunately not in two column format which makes it difficult to see
which text matches with the origianl English.

On the PC, save your document in Rich Text Format (RTF) and then apply
<http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/cgi-bin/NewSearch?key=cyrillic+rtf>
on the Macintosh to convert it to MacCyrillic

 

[Gary Goldberg]

I don't know about formatting problems, but I can display Russian
just fine in Word98 using the Pryamoj Prop font