Fwd: [SEELANGS] Help with old fonts

[George Hawrysch]

Dr. Rifkin's method is straightforward, will work with most documents,
and should always be tried first. Note that you don't need to use MS
Word. Any modern word processor that can "Save As HTML" (same thing
as "Save As Web Page") will serve.

Failing this, a more involved way is to save your file as Rich Text
Format and then manipulate the resulting .rtf file as if it were a
.txt file (it's possible because the RTF file format actually *is*
plain (ASCII) text). The RTF specification represents single-byte
and double-byte characters differently, so you can create a macro
to convert between them. It's tedious to set up initially, but you
only have to do that once. It's especially useful in dealing with
Cyrillic texts which are mixtures of 1251 and Unicode encodings,
as can occur when several people have edited the same document.

George Hawrysch

> Open the word file.
> Save as web page.
> Close the new webified file (with html extension)
> Open the webified file through a browser.
> The cyrillic showed up accurately, with some loss of paragraph-level  
> formatting.
> Copy the text.
> Open a word document.
> Paste the text.
>
> As I say, this worked for me, I hope it will work for others.

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