Cyrillic into Mac Office 98

[Zenon M. Feszczak]

Pryvit -

Has anyone experienced problems importing Cyrillic documents created in
older versions of Microsoft Word into the latest Mac Office 98?

All my old documents open as garbage!
Oddly, if I open those same documents in the venerable SimpleText, they're
completely readable.
I can then copy and paste the text into a new Word 98 document and save,
and all is well.
However, this is not exactly an elegant approach.

It seems that Word 98 is converting 2-byte text into 1-byte text.

Any suggestions?

Zenon M. Feszczak
Slavophile
Philosophy
University of Pennsylvania