Re. Cyrillic-capable Win95 Word Processor

[David E. Crawford]

--- On 10 Feb 00, at 0:02, Automatic digest processor wrote:  ---

> Date:    Wed, 9 Feb 2000 15:32:56 -0500
> From:    "Udut, Kenneth" <kenneth.udut at SPCORP.COM>
> Subject: Good Cyrillic-capable Win95 Word Processor w/fast
> search/replace
>          capacity.
>


> It doesn't even have to be Cyrillic-capable per se - it can even be
> MS-DOS (I'm starting to be able to read Win1251 high bit codes], and
> MS-DOS doesn't 'trash' your nice hi-bit characters like Microsoft
> Word97 likes to.  [never, ever, ever use built-in Windows95 language
> variations (Times New Roman (Cyrillic), etc), when using Word97 --
> use other Win1251 fonts - for Word97 will convert your nice
> high-bit, easily transferrable characters into some nasty, useless
> format that doesn't copy/paste!
>

MSWord 2000 added some capability beyond MSWord 97 that will allow
you to overcome this problem.  Cyrillic text that has been cut/copied
from a Word document will still not directly paste into anything
requiring "text only" from the clipboard, such as most ASCII text
editors or a form on a web page.  This is equally true, in Word 2000
at least, for the Windows-supplied fonts and the freebie fonts such
as ER Kurier 1251.  However, from the MSWord 2000 menu you may pull
down FILE, SAVE AS, and select "encoded text" as the file type;
after typing in the filename and clicking the "do you really wanna do
this? (= YES)" button, a list of text encoding formats will appear,
including 5 cyrillic encodings from which you can pick, such as
Windows and KOI8-R.  You may then open the saved text file using a
cyrillic-ready text editor from which you may copy and paste onto the
web or wherever.  Not particularly elegant, but it works.  Word 97
does not appear to offer the "encoded text" save option anywhere.

It's a good idea to save your file in Word format prior to doing all
of this, of course.

dc

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