Mac MS Word 98 and Russian

[Kjetil Rå Hauge]

>There is a bug in Mac Word 98 when dealing with Russian text. It is
>possible to type Russian text normally, but the next time the file is
>opened, all of the Russian characters will be converted into
>underscores (interestingly, it the Mac file is reopened in Windows
>before being reopened on a Mac, this problem does not occur). The
>same happens if Russian text is pasted into an open Word 98 file from
>the clipboard, or if a Mac MS Word 5.1 file with Russian text is
>opened in Mac MS Word 98. All of the Russian characters are
>irreversibly changed to  underscores.
>

As Robert de Lossa pointed out, this is not irreversible for text
originating in Word98, but the workaround will not work for Cyrillic
text from Word 5.1. For this kind of text, you might try to go by way
of HTML. Word 98 can import HTML, and you could export to HTML from
Word 5.1 by first saving as rtf, then using Andreas Prilop's Convert
Cyrillic RTF for either Add/Strip or PowerReplace, and finally using
rtf2html - definitely a solution that puts the "work" into
"workaround". Look for these utilities on versiontracker.com.
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-- Kjetil Rå Hauge, U. of Oslo. Phone +47/22856710, fax +47/22854140
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