I'm not sure of all of the data-crunching and manipulation that is going on behind the scenes with Word in this case, but I am wondering if there is a solution to make this problem easier. This all seems like a very roundabout, clumsy and non-intuitive way of simply saving the file in text format and reading it back in properly, which is all I want to do. There seems to be no way to set the default encoding in Word for either save or open. However, when I load the same text file back in, I have to

The only way that I can properly save files as text files in Japanese is to explicitly select 'Other encoding - Japanese (Mac OS)' or 'Other encoding - Japanese (Windows/DOS)' upon saving the file. It's Word itself that is garbling the document. Properly open the text file without garbling the Japanese characters. Ironically, however, other programs such as TextWrangler and TextEdit will When reading the text file back into Word, even though I had correctly selected The Japanese text is 100% garbled and unreadable in this case You can also issue the file command on literally any other file, be it images, archives, executables, or anything else you want to point the command at. With text/plain being the file type and unknown-8bit being the character set file encoding. Select 'Convert from - Unicode Text' in the dialog, and select 'Unicode 5.1-UTF' in the file -I text.txt text.txt: text/plain charsetunknown-8bit. Our antivirus scan shows that this Mac download is clean. This Mac application was originally produced by Jin jing Wang. The bundle id for this app is -encoding-converter. The most popular version of Text Encoding Converter for Mac is 2012.10.30. Close the file, and reopen the text file save in step 3 above in Word. Text Encoding Converter for Mac belongs to Developer Tools. In the file conversion dialog, select 'Other encoding' and 'Unicode 5.1-UTF8'Ĥ. Using 'Save as.', select the '.txt' file format, and click 'Save'.ģ.

Copy a block of text from Firefox and paste the text into Word 2008/2011, using the 'Keep text only' paste option.Ģ. Since extraneous formatting data is not saved along with the file.ġ. Text files have the advantage of being much smaller in size than other formats, So that I can easily use it in other applications. What I'd like to do is save some plain Japanese text from Word to a. This is a problem I've had with Word for Mac for some time now.

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