Mac MS Word 98 and Russian

[Katherine Lahti]

Ah yes!

I've been unable to open most of my old Cyrillic documents in Word 98
and get anything but lines where the letters used to be. I've also
had problems with running Cyrillic texts though the clipboard,
AND--as Robert De Lossa pointed out can happen-- terrible problems
have ensued when I put the cursor in a Cyrillic text: it reverts back
to Latinitsa or those (lovely) lines again.

I've spoken to our tech person and to a specialist from Middlebury.

Their recommendation is not to use Word at all because, according to
them, it doesn't handle non-Western fonts well. Our solution, put
together with spit and baling wire, is to use my older version of
Word for Cyrillic texts.


>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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