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Anonymous
2011-05-27T02:31:26+00:00

Change encoding of a document?

I pasted a Russian novel into MS Word 2007, so that I can use the help of “translate” for unknown words.

But the whole document is illegible.

It looks like this:                Åëèçàðîâ Ìèõàèë. Áèáëèîòåêàðü.            (I guess the encoding is KOI8).                                           

It should look like this:     Елизаров Михаил. Библиотекарь.         (encoding windows 1251).

My question is:

” Can one somehow convert the encoding of the entire document, by manipulating the encoding in: Word Option/Advanced/Web Option/Encoding ?”

Thanks in advance

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  1. Andreas Killer 144.1K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2011-05-27T07:14:55+00:00

    If I copy both example lines from your post, paste them into Notepad, save the file in Unicode format, I can open that file with Word and can see both lines exactly as in your post.

    I guess that you has done something wrong when you paste the russian text.

    Andreas.

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-05-27T13:42:09+00:00

    Andreas,

    Thank you for pointing out that I have to save it first in Notepad as Unicode, and then open it in Word with Windows(Cyrillic).

    It works. Great

    Gerhard

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