We use an Access database to generate reports in Word. Often these are
English and another language, side by side. Until some months ago, this
worked very well. Now the special character sets needed for the other
languages (Spanish, French, Portugese, German) appear as Greek symbols when
the document opens in Word. This is computer-specific -- our database is on
the network, and this problem has occurred in some computers at different
times, but until a few weeks ago, never for all the computers. Now we can't
generate the documents on any of our computers.

Hi,
try to set control panel-regional settings-advanced-language for non-unicode
programs to german or some other western european language

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Best regards,
___________
Alex Dybenko (MVP)
http://accessblog.net
http://www.PointLtd.com


"liz ruth" <liz (E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:6422B5A2-AF7E-4F85-A44C-(E-Mail Removed)...
> We use an Access database to generate reports in Word. Often these are
> English and another language, side by side. Until some months ago, this
> worked very well. Now the special character sets needed for the other
> languages (Spanish, French, Portugese, German) appear as Greek symbols
> when
> the document opens in Word. This is computer-specific -- our database is
> on
> the network, and this problem has occurred in some computers at different
> times, but until a few weeks ago, never for all the computers. Now we
> can't
> generate the documents on any of our computers.

Thanks, but we our reports can include any of several languages, and each of
them appears side-by-side with English. So we can't specify German if we
want English as well as German.

"Alex Dybenko" wrote:

> Hi,
> try to set control panel-regional settings-advanced-language for non-unicode
> programs to german or some other western european language
>
> --
> Best regards,
> ___________
> Alex Dybenko (MVP)
> http://accessblog.net
> http://www.PointLtd.com
>
>
> "liz ruth" <liz (E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:6422B5A2-AF7E-4F85-A44C-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > We use an Access database to generate reports in Word. Often these are
> > English and another language, side by side. Until some months ago, this
> > worked very well. Now the special character sets needed for the other
> > languages (Spanish, French, Portugese, German) appear as Greek symbols
> > when
> > the document opens in Word. This is computer-specific -- our database is
> > on
> > the network, and this problem has occurred in some computers at different
> > times, but until a few weeks ago, never for all the computers. Now we
> > can't
> > generate the documents on any of our computers.
>
> .
>

hi,
all these languages - Spanish, French, Portugese, German - use the same
character set for non-unicode, so any language you set - it should work.
Russian has different character set - so if you set russian - reports on
russian will work, but not Spanish, French, Portugese, German. I think the
same applies to Greek

--
Best regards,
___________
Alex Dybenko (MVP)
http://accessblog.net
http://www.PointLtd.com


"liz ruth" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news486989A-7B24-4B81-8807-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Thanks, but we our reports can include any of several languages, and each
> of
> them appears side-by-side with English. So we can't specify German if we
> want English as well as German.
>
> "Alex Dybenko" wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> try to set control panel-regional settings-advanced-language for
>> non-unicode
>> programs to german or some other western european language
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> ___________
>> Alex Dybenko (MVP)
>> http://accessblog.net
>> http://www.PointLtd.com
>>
>>
>> "liz ruth" <liz (E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:6422B5A2-AF7E-4F85-A44C-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> > We use an Access database to generate reports in Word. Often these are
>> > English and another language, side by side. Until some months ago,
>> > this
>> > worked very well. Now the special character sets needed for the other
>> > languages (Spanish, French, Portugese, German) appear as Greek symbols
>> > when
>> > the document opens in Word. This is computer-specific -- our database
>> > is
>> > on
>> > the network, and this problem has occurred in some computers at
>> > different
>> > times, but until a few weeks ago, never for all the computers. Now we
>> > can't
>> > generate the documents on any of our computers.
>>
>> .
>>

We tried that and it didn't work. The characters are correct in the Access
database, but when the Word document is opened and created, the language is
already set as English. So from the start, the non-English side of the
document doesn't have the special characters for Word to display. So setting
the language in Word for the non-English side of the document does not help
at all.

I should say that previously-generated non-English documents display
perfectly well in Word - the problem is just with the documents that we newly
generate from our Access database.

It may be an Office 2007 problem, since all of this started roughly over the
months since we switched to 2007. Our program still generates documents with
".doc" instead of ".docx". Could that be the problem?


"Alex Dybenko" wrote:

> hi,
> all these languages - Spanish, French, Portugese, German - use the same
> character set for non-unicode, so any language you set - it should work.
> Russian has different character set - so if you set russian - reports on
> russian will work, but not Spanish, French, Portugese, German. I think the
> same applies to Greek
>
> --
> Best regards,
> ___________
> Alex Dybenko (MVP)
> http://accessblog.net
> http://www.PointLtd.com
>
>
> "liz ruth" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news486989A-7B24-4B81-8807-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Thanks, but we our reports can include any of several languages, and each
> > of
> > them appears side-by-side with English. So we can't specify German if we
> > want English as well as German.
> >
> > "Alex Dybenko" wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >> try to set control panel-regional settings-advanced-language for
> >> non-unicode
> >> programs to german or some other western european language
> >>
> >> --
> >> Best regards,
> >> ___________
> >> Alex Dybenko (MVP)
> >> http://accessblog.net
> >> http://www.PointLtd.com
> >>
> >>
> >> "liz ruth" <liz (E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> >> news:6422B5A2-AF7E-4F85-A44C-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> > We use an Access database to generate reports in Word. Often these are
> >> > English and another language, side by side. Until some months ago,
> >> > this
> >> > worked very well. Now the special character sets needed for the other
> >> > languages (Spanish, French, Portugese, German) appear as Greek symbols
> >> > when
> >> > the document opens in Word. This is computer-specific -- our database
> >> > is
> >> > on
> >> > the network, and this problem has occurred in some computers at
> >> > different
> >> > times, but until a few weeks ago, never for all the computers. Now we
> >> > can't
> >> > generate the documents on any of our computers.
> >>
> >> .
> >>
> .
>

Hi,
and how do you "send" characters to word? can you post your code?

--
Best regards,
___________
Alex Dybenko (MVP)
http://accessblog.net
http://www.PointLtd.com

"liz ruth" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:2F4BFAD5-FBF1-4E90-ABB9-(E-Mail Removed)...
> We tried that and it didn't work. The characters are correct in the
> Access
> database, but when the Word document is opened and created, the language
> is
> already set as English. So from the start, the non-English side of the
> document doesn't have the special characters for Word to display. So
> setting
> the language in Word for the non-English side of the document does not
> help
> at all.
>
> I should say that previously-generated non-English documents display
> perfectly well in Word - the problem is just with the documents that we
> newly
> generate from our Access database.
>
> It may be an Office 2007 problem, since all of this started roughly over
> the
> months since we switched to 2007. Our program still generates documents
> with
> ".doc" instead of ".docx". Could that be the problem?
>
>
> "Alex Dybenko" wrote:
>
>> hi,
>> all these languages - Spanish, French, Portugese, German - use the same
>> character set for non-unicode, so any language you set - it should work.
>> Russian has different character set - so if you set russian - reports on
>> russian will work, but not Spanish, French, Portugese, German. I think
>> the
>> same applies to Greek
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> ___________
>> Alex Dybenko (MVP)
>> http://accessblog.net
>> http://www.PointLtd.com
>>
>>
>> "liz ruth" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news486989A-7B24-4B81-8807-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> > Thanks, but we our reports can include any of several languages, and
>> > each
>> > of
>> > them appears side-by-side with English. So we can't specify German if
>> > we
>> > want English as well as German.
>> >
>> > "Alex Dybenko" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi,
>> >> try to set control panel-regional settings-advanced-language for
>> >> non-unicode
>> >> programs to german or some other western european language
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Best regards,
>> >> ___________
>> >> Alex Dybenko (MVP)
>> >> http://accessblog.net
>> >> http://www.PointLtd.com
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> "liz ruth" <liz (E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> >> news:6422B5A2-AF7E-4F85-A44C-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> >> > We use an Access database to generate reports in Word. Often these
>> >> > are
>> >> > English and another language, side by side. Until some months ago,
>> >> > this
>> >> > worked very well. Now the special character sets needed for the
>> >> > other
>> >> > languages (Spanish, French, Portugese, German) appear as Greek
>> >> > symbols
>> >> > when
>> >> > the document opens in Word. This is computer-specific -- our
>> >> > database
>> >> > is
>> >> > on
>> >> > the network, and this problem has occurred in some computers at
>> >> > different
>> >> > times, but until a few weeks ago, never for all the computers. Now
>> >> > we
>> >> > can't
>> >> > generate the documents on any of our computers.
>> >>
>> >> .
>> >>
>> .
>>