However, there is also such a scourge of the modern information society, as the incompatibility of formats. It must be said that with files made on modern word processors, such problems are extremely rare. The fact is that for the Russian language there is not one encoding, and the text in one of them will not be displayed correctly in the other. But note that this does not mean anything, - carefully watch that they add up to meaningful words. Going through the options one by one and looking at the text in the sample field, select the encoding in which the characters will be Russian. This is very convenient, because you do not need to close and tear off the document every time again to find the right one. But, as a rule, the user does not know what characters the text was typed by the previous author, therefore in the lower part of this window there is a field called “Sample” in which a fragment from the text will be displayed in real time when choosing one or another set of characters.

We need a third item - a manual selection, to the right of it are listed various sets of characters. The first, by default, is CP-1251, the encoding of Windows. In this new window there will be three switches. It will have a list of possible formats, among which we find the “Coded Text”, and we will get the following dialog. Now open the document again, as if applying the settings, and a file conversion window will appear in front of you. In the 'Advanced' section of the window that appears, we find the heading 'General' and tick the 'Confirm file conversion upon opening' checkbox. There are collected global settings for recognition and display, and if you change them in an open document, then for him they will become individual, and for the rest - will not change.

To do this, go to the 'Information' in the 'File' tab. If you received a text file from some source but cannot read its contents, then you need to manually change the encoding. Just for such cases in Microsoft Word it is possible to specify an encoding for the text.

And getting an unreadable document is very annoying, especially if it is important and necessary. On the other hand, such a situation does sometimes happen. Modern text editors determine the encoding when opening a document Documents in this encoding do not need to be changed and configured, as they show the text correctly by default. The role played by the emergence and development of utf-8, the so-called Unicode, which includes a lot of different characters, including Russian. This problem often arose at the dawn of technology, but now word processors are able to automatically select the appropriate kits themselves. When it is set incorrectly, instead of clear and familiar letters and numbers you will see incoherent characters. The set of characters that we see on the screen when opening a document is called an encoding.

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