Mac MS Word 98 and Russian

[Kat Tancock]

Hi Greg,

I personally use Apple Works for most of my word processing - the
uncomplicated stuff, anyways. Being an Apple program, it coordinates well
with the Apple language kits. I've never had a problem using Russian with
Apple Works.

Word 98 and Word Perfect (which Corel hasn't updated in many years, and no
longer supports) are both extremely flaky. We run them in my lab and have
nothing but problems with them both. However, I have been using Office 2001
over the last month, and I have to say that it is a great improvement over
98. You may want to consider upgrading if you really need to use Word.

If you do want to try WordPerfect. go to www.versiontracker.com and search
for it. It will come up with two things - WP 3.5E and a patch for it.
Definitely apply the patch - it fixes several annoying bugs with
WordPerfect.

Kat

> From: Greg Thomson <gthomson at MAC.COM>
> Reply-To: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list
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> Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 16:30:54 +0430
> To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
> Subject: Mac MS Word 98 and Russian
>
> 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.
>
> Does anyone know a solution for this bug?
>
> Greg Thomson
>
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