Microsoft KB Archive/315495

= WD2000: Extended ANSI Characters in RTF File Are Replaced with Arabic or Hebrew Characters =

Article ID: 315495

Article Last Modified on 1/6/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q315495



SYMPTOMS
When you import a Rich Text Format (RTF) file that contains extended American National Standards Institute (ANSI) characters, such as umlauts or accented characters, the extended ANSI characters change into Arabic or Hebrew characters.



CAUSE
This problem occurs when the following conditions are true:
 * 1) Language support for a right-to-left language was not active when you saved the RTF file.

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 * 1) Language support for a right-to-left language is active when you open the RTF file.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Word 2002.

Additional query words: bidi bi-di bi-directional right-to-left

Keywords: kbbug kbnofix KB315495

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