Hello!
Emilio Echeverría said:
I have a text file encoded as Windows Cyrillic. But it is always displayed
as Windows Western. On the Font dialog in Notepad, I selected Cyrillic
(with Courier New), both before and after going to the Open File dialog
(with ANSI encoding selected). I tried the same thing using the character
set selector in Wordpad (with Arial).
How do I get Notepad or Wordpad to display Windows Cyrillic text files
correctly?
Both are Unicode programs now (unlike Windows 95 times) and
both are _bad_ choice of reading Cyrillic text
(it still can be done, but with some tricks):
No need to change your system settings.
1) The best choice is a NON-Unicode plain text editor - there are
many of them on shareware.com or on tucowes.com
I use
http://UltraEdit.com
In such editor, because it's a non-Unicode program you _can_
choose say "Courier New" then choose "Script=Cyrillic" and
work with Cyrillic text files normally
2) Second choice is MS Word ver. 2000 and higher
There you can _explicitely_ specify the encoding of your
text file and thus it will work Ok - please see the instruction
in the "Unicode and Cyrillic" section of my site. But here is
the direct link:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PaulGor/cp_e.htm#open
3) In Notepad, you can do that with a trick - you can use, instead
of standard Unicode fonts of your system such as "Arial" or
"Courier new" another font, old Cyrillic font, non-Unicode one
made for Windows 3.1 - just choose it in Notepad's menu
There are a lot of such fonts, you can download say
"ER Kurier 1251" from my site:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PaulGor/fonts_e.htm#part12
If it still does not work (I tried it long ago, so am not sure(
then you need to modify such font first:
see "Method _2_" here:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PaulGor/word_r.htm#screen
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Regards,
Paul Gorodyansky
"Cyrillic (Russian): instructions for Windows and Internet":
http://RusWin.net
Russian On-screen Keyboard:
http://Kbd.RusWin.net