problem converting iscii to unicode in Word 2003

[chenkuttavan]

I have large mass of text saved in iscii encoding for Malayalam saved
in doc format to be converted to unicode. (Iscii is Indian Script Code
for Information Interchange.) I see that there is a converter in Word
which converts iscii encoded .txt file to unicode .txt file. I try to
save my doc files with Malayalam text (based on iscii coding) to .txt
with iscii Malayalam encoding and see only weird characters in preview
pane. (I have enabled International support, indic coding etc. in
Word, checked the option "confirm coversion at open".) Why is this? My
OS is XP SP2 and I have installed files for complex script and right
to left languages.

 

[Cindy M.]

I have large mass of text saved in iscii encoding for Malayalam saved

in doc format to be converted to unicode. (Iscii is Indian Script Code
for Information Interchange.) I see that there is a converter in Word
which converts iscii encoded .txt file to unicode .txt file. I try to
save my doc files with Malayalam text (based on iscii coding) to .txt
with iscii Malayalam encoding and see only weird characters in preview
pane. (I have enabled International support, indic coding etc. in
Word, checked the option "confirm coversion at open".) Why is this? My
OS is XP SP2 and I have installed files for complex script and right
to left languages.

You may have better luck getting an answer in the
word.international.features newsgroup...

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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