character sets for non-English languages

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liz ruth

We use an Access database to generate reports in Word. Often these are
English and another language, side by side. Until some months ago, this
worked very well. Now the special character sets needed for the other
languages (Spanish, French, Portugese, German) appear as Greek symbols when
the document opens in Word. This is computer-specific -- our database is on
the network, and this problem has occurred in some computers at different
times, but until a few weeks ago, never for all the computers. Now we can't
generate the documents on any of our computers.
 
L

liz ruth

Thanks, but we our reports can include any of several languages, and each of
them appears side-by-side with English. So we can't specify German if we
want English as well as German.
 
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Alex Dybenko

hi,
all these languages - Spanish, French, Portugese, German - use the same
character set for non-unicode, so any language you set - it should work.
Russian has different character set - so if you set russian - reports on
russian will work, but not Spanish, French, Portugese, German. I think the
same applies to Greek

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Best regards,
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Alex Dybenko (MVP)
http://accessblog.net
http://www.PointLtd.com
 
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liz ruth

We tried that and it didn't work. The characters are correct in the Access
database, but when the Word document is opened and created, the language is
already set as English. So from the start, the non-English side of the
document doesn't have the special characters for Word to display. So setting
the language in Word for the non-English side of the document does not help
at all.

I should say that previously-generated non-English documents display
perfectly well in Word - the problem is just with the documents that we newly
generate from our Access database.

It may be an Office 2007 problem, since all of this started roughly over the
months since we switched to 2007. Our program still generates documents with
".doc" instead of ".docx". Could that be the problem?
 

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