Subject: Re: Russian MSWord import problems
From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Dec 25 2001 - 10:51:19 CST
--- Andrew Dunbar <hippietrail@yahoo.com> wrote: >
Sorry I can't find the reference. Yesterday I saved
> a
> file that somebody was having problems with in
> AbiWord.
> It's called krs12.doc but I can't find the bug
> report
> or
> email that posted it.
>
> Anyway I've looked at it in Word 2001 for Mac and it
> seems to be a Russian Word file with the encoding
> broken. All the characters are garbage but the same
> type of garbage you get if you load a Russian plain
> text file with a latin encoding. On this basis my
> guess is that the file was created by a very old
> version
> of Word that didn't save encoding information or it
> could have been created to use a bad font that had
> cyrillic letters but latin encoding.
>
> I hope somebody can find the original mail/bug
> report
> this refers to...
Dom has come through with the reference:
The email and doc in question came from wvware-devel.
The link is
http://www.cl.spb.ru/~serge/krs12.doc.gz
Andrew.
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