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Q174318: WD97: Wrong Characters Viewing Multilingual Web Page as UTF-8

Article: Q174318
Product(s): Word 97 for Windows
Version(s): WINDOWS:97
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): winword word97 kbwdinternet
Last Modified: 14-NOV-2000

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Word 97 for Windows 
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SYMPTOMS
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When you set the language encoding of Web page that contains multiple languages
to UTF-8, and then view the page in a Web browser, incorrect characters may be
shown.

WORKAROUND
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To work around this problem, follow these steps:

1. Open your multilingual Web page in Word.

2. On the File menu, click Properties.

3. In the Document Properties dialog box, under For Saving This Page, click to
  select the correct language set your page contains, and then click OK.

  NOTE: This procedure works when your page contains text typed in a different
  language in addition to English. If your page contains English and two or
  more additional languages, there may not be a language encoding option
  available to correctly show all of the text when viewed in a Web browser.

STATUS
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Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here in the
Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION
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For additional information, please see the following articles in the Microsoft
Knowledge Base:

  Q174317 WD97: Incorrect Characters Displayed in Multilingual Web Page

  Q174315 WD97: Warning When Saving Multilingual Web Page or HTML Document

Additional query words: 8.0 8.00

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Keywords          : winword word97 kbwdinternet 
Technology        : kbWordSearch kbWord97 kbWord97Search kbZNotKeyword2
Version           : WINDOWS:97
Issue type        : kbprb

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