Re: [WinMac] Russian Word File

cathyf@infocom.com
Tue, 20 Apr 1999 23:35:45 -0500

>I use Macs and have received a PC originated Word97 file which contains
>Russian text.
>
>My set-up has Russian Keyboard Kit, plus Cyrillic fonts. File opens OK
>using Office 98 but not Russian!?!

Have you tried just selecting the all the text and switching to one of
your Cyrillic fonts? That's what I have to do when receiving Cyrillic
files from a Windows person -- if I just open it up in Word, then I see
the "garbage" font where Cyrillic should be. So I just select all the
text and then switch to one of the Apple Russian System fonts, and it
reads fine. Same trick works with some of the stuff you see on the web
that Netscape's encoding doesn't seem to make readable.

A wonderful site for Russifying a mac, by the way is

<http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/rusmac/>

It has all the links required to pick up everything you need to read and
write Cyrillic on the web (all freebies, including the Apple Russian
System fonts). Some people have told me that following those instructions
was more successful for them than commercial kits. Good explanations of
things, also, maybe you would find some useful info there if nothing else
works.

                           Peace, Cathy Flick cathyf@earlham.edu

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