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Alain - 22 Jul 2003 02:04 GMT

Hi,

I found some interesting vietnamese text on a web site. I want to copy
and paste this text in a Word 2K document. But then, characters are not
correct, accents are changed to letters.

I installed Arial Univeral and enabled vietnamese support in MS Office.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

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Michael \(michka\) Kaplan [MS] - 22 Jul 2003 12:29 GMT

If the web page is not a recognizable encoding, then it will not work.

Much of what is on web pages uses the VNI encoding(s). If you have the South
Asian version of Word 2000 then there is a utility to convert VNI text to
Unicode, but the utility does not exist in the version of Word that shipped
everywhere else.

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Alain - 22 Jul 2003 15:15 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for your information.

Is there any way of saving the web page and loading it correctly in Word
afterwards?

I have tried saving it in txt format, and loading it in Word XP as ecoded text;
it is recognized as Vietnamese text ...but not converted correctly: result is
the same as Copy and Paste.

Alain

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Michael \(michka\) Kaplan [MS] - 22 Jul 2003 16:37 GMT

Without that add-in? You would have to find something else that can do VNI
conversion.

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Hi,

Thanks for your information.

Is there any way of saving the web page and loading it correctly in Word
afterwards?

I have tried saving it in txt format, and loading it in Word XP as ecoded
text;
it is recognized as Vietnamese text ...but not converted correctly: result
is
the same as Copy and Paste.

Alain

"Michael (michka) Kaplan [MS]" a ?crit :

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FL - 22 Jul 2003 16:32 GMT

Hi, Alain,

Can you try using Copy in the browser (I assume it is IE) and then Paste
Special | Unformatted Unicode text?

Francisco

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Alain - 22 Jul 2003 23:35 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for your suggestion.

Yes, I have tried copy and paste special, Unicode. No success.

I have also tried saving file to disk and loading htm file in Word. Next, I
have tried saving to text and loading; Word asks for encoding type, I
selected either Vietnamese or Unicode without any more success.

Michael suggest a utility available only in Asian versions of Word; I'm out
of luck for this also!

If you have any more ideas, please...

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Alain - 23 Jul 2003 02:17 GMT

Hi,

It IS possible to do it!

I downloaded VNI fonts from www.vnisoft.com/ , then select download. Fonts
are free. I installed them. Their configuration instructions for browsers are
very helpful.

I then imported the htm file in word, changed the font to the VNI font and
...voila!

Thanks for your help.

Alain

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