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Hauli - 22 Dec 2003 08:23 GMT

Zau! Operating system what i'm using is finnish language windows xp.
Aditionaly i use Russian keybord. The problem is when i receive email from
my Russian frend and there is attachment one *.doc files. The file name
about this file are Russian character ###.doc. I save file c:\doc folder and
i try open it Word XP it's not opening. I must change the file name for
fininsh character (frend.doc) and then its opening fine! Where is the
problem???

Sory my bad language :-)

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Paul Gorodyansky - 23 Dec 2003 22:50 GMT

> Zau! Operating system what i'm using is finnish language windows xp.
> Aditionaly i use Russian keybord. The problem is when i receive email from
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> fininsh character (frend.doc) and then its opening fine! Where is the
> problem???

There is no problem, you do the right thing.
File names are kind of a deep-system thing
(unlike a text or document which is a user thing), so file names
depend on System Code Page of the computer - which is "Western, 1252"
on yours. Russian file names work on on a machine where system code
page is "Cyrillic, 1251"

You don't want yo change your system code page, so just do what you
are doing - save it with a latin name.

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Paul Gorodyansky
"Cyrillic (Russian): instructions for Windows and Internet":
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Michael \(michka\) Kaplan [MS] - 23 Dec 2003 22:58 GMT

OR you can just not double-click to open-- save it down,open it from
File|Open, and then you avoid depending on the CP_ACP value.

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> > Zau! Operating system what i'm using is finnish language windows xp.
> > Aditionaly i use Russian keybord. The problem is when i receive email from
[quoted text clipped - 13 lines]
> You don't want yo change your system code page, so just do what you
> are doing - save it with a latin name.

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Paul Gorodyansky - 29 Dec 2003 19:43 GMT

"Michael (michka) Kaplan [MS]" wrote:

> OR you can just not double-click to open-- save it down,open it from
> File|Open, and then you avoid depending on the CP_ACP value.

But looks like it's exactly what he was doing:

> I save file c:\doc folder and
> i try open it Word XP it's not opening.

Now I think it's more strange case that we thought - I, as you,
do know that File/Open in MS Word should take non-CP_ACP file names
just fine... Why he has troubles is unknown then...

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Paul Gorodyansky
"Cyrillic (Russian): instructions for Windows and Internet":
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PaulGor/

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Michael \(michka\) Kaplan [MS] - 30 Dec 2003 00:37 GMT

I cannot repro that in any Unicode version of Word, and suspect it is the
double-click issue.

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> "Michael (michka) Kaplan [MS]" wrote:
> >
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
> do know that File/Open in MS Word should take non-CP_ACP file names
> just fine... Why he has troubles is unknown then...

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