Printing Cyrillic [was : Cyrillic into Mac Office 98]

[Bruno Aeschbacher]

I am using a French version of Win95 and Office97, and having installed the
multilanguage support provided by Microsoft there should be no problem
DISPLAYING and WRITING cyrillic.

PRINTING is another problem. Some programs handle it fine, others not, and
among the latter is MS Word for Office 97. All quickly-scrawlies. So I went
through all the FAQs and found out that you don't have have to adapt your
software but your printer driver. Hardware manufacturers and MS should
install better communication...

I wrote an email to my printer manufacturer (in my case :
http://www.brother.ch) and 2 days later they sent me an updated driver.
Quickly, for free - and from then on, I can print all MS-provided Greek and
Cyrillic fonts, including cyrillic KOI8-R (not supported by MS, war is
waging !?). BTW, brother has a page from where you can download the printer
drivers for free. I preferred writing an email because there are hundreds of
different models with different specifications. Who said it was easy to be a
client...?

I will soon upgrade from Win95 to Win98. New problems seem to be awaiting...
Life would be boring otherwise, eh?

Bruno Aeschbacher
onurb at swissonline.ch
2nd year student of Russian
Geneva, Switzerland



-----Message d'origine-----
De: SEELangs: Slavic & E. European Languages & literatures list
[mailto:SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU]De la part de Ernest Sjogren
Date: dimanche, 15. novembre 1998 18:09
@: SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
Objet: Re: Cyrillic into Mac Office 98


Hello, All,

Mr. Feszczak, my sympathies.  It is quite aggravating, isn't it?

On the Windows side of things there is basically the same problem.  It
seems that Word has not handled their transition to UNICODE very expertly.
On my Windows '95 machine things have improved to where all documents
appear on the screen properly -- but the Cyrillic characters do not
_print_.  WordPad and NotePad, the free Microsoft text editors, have no
problem whatsover displaying or printing Cyrillic, but they do not have all
the nice formatting features that Word does.

My version of Word is about 1.3 years old, but the problem seems to exist
in the current version of Word, too, as the version we bought for our son
in college just last month fails to print just as miserably.

Microsoft will not help, as the Word(s) we bought are "OEM," -- Original
Equipment Manufacturer: they came w/ the computer, albeit w/ CD -- which
MS feels no responsibility for.  <Expletives deleted.>

If anyone has solved this problem -- I hope it is merely a configuration
problem -- PLEASE share it with us.

Thanks very much.

-- Ernie Sjogren

At 10:39 AM 11/15/98 -0500, you wrote:
>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
>