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Access non-Roman fonts in Word 98/2001 files Apps
If you haven't upgraded to Word X, but need to get Chinese, Japanese, or other non-roman fonts out of a .doc file, here's a method that can help you out.

First, open the file in Classic. When the file is open, do a "Save As..." and save the file in RTF format. Open the saved file in TextEdit, and if OS X recognizes the character encoding, the file should open in its native language.

Note: there are probably other ways of doing this if you have a non-roman Classic installation, but this hint assumes you've installed the default North American version of OS 9.
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Use InDesign or Nisus!
Authored by: funwithstuff on Sep 16, '03 10:56:53AM

Both InDesign and Nisus Writer Express can open Word documents with non-roman (ie. Unicode) encodings and display/edit them properly. (Word v.X will not read these files successfully.)

Good to know that old Word versions can non-destructively save as RTF, though - can Word v.X, anyone?



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or even TextEdit...
Authored by: funwithstuff on Sep 16, '03 11:17:33AM

Perhaps one of the best hidden (or least advertised) features of TextEdit (yes, in Jaguar not Panther) is that it can read the text in a Word document. Formatting is thrown away, but the text is fine, including the unicode data. Just drag the Word doc onto the TextEdit icon.

Should this be in a hint of its own?



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Not really.
Authored by: vladimus on Sep 16, '03 03:27:29PM

Maybe for Office v.X documents TextEdit will read it, but for the Office 98 files on my machine, the text gets translated to plain ASCII text, no Unicode.



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OpenOffice works, Office X should work.
Authored by: vladimus on Sep 16, '03 03:22:45PM
As a reply to funwithstuff, I assumed Office v.X could access non-roman characters. But, I imagine it would be able to non-destructively save RTF files.

Oh, and if you don't use (or want) any Microsoft software, OpenOffice.org will save out to RTF as well.

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