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porkupan · 11-20-2006, 03:09 PM

Actually, WordPad knows how to save the text in Unicode. It's a bit strange, that you cannot directly command it to do just that.

Usually, you can just open the document in WordPad, then:
SelectAll->change font to, say, Times New Roman->set "Script" to Western->Save

The above procedure is usually sufficient for the WordPad to convert a Cyrillic document into Unicode, readable by Connect Software and the Reader. (Connect Software has a bug of not being able to show Bold and Italic non-Latin characters in RTF).

I tried using RTFUnicode on a file from the Aldebaran library, and it didn't seem to do much (said it converted 11 characters). However the RTF autogenerated from FB2 is not generally readable by Connect at all, the program crashes when it tries to open it. MS Word and WordPad are OK with it, though. So, it may be uncommon compressed format (its size is about 1/2 of the same text saved by Word or WordPad, and about 1/4 of the same text in Unicode).

RTFUnicode seemed to work just fine on a standard, generated by Word or WordPad non-unicode Cyrillic RTF file.

11-20-2006, 03:09 PM	#2
porkupan Fanatic Posts: 556 Karma: 1057213 Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: North Eastern U.S. Device: Sony Reader	Actually, WordPad knows how to save the text in Unicode. It's a bit strange, that you cannot directly command it to do just that. Usually, you can just open the document in WordPad, then: SelectAll->change font to, say, Times New Roman->set "Script" to Western->Save The above procedure is usually sufficient for the WordPad to convert a Cyrillic document into Unicode, readable by Connect Software and the Reader. (Connect Software has a bug of not being able to show Bold and Italic non-Latin characters in RTF). I tried using RTFUnicode on a file from the Aldebaran library, and it didn't seem to do much (said it converted 11 characters). However the RTF autogenerated from FB2 is not generally readable by Connect at all, the program crashes when it tries to open it. MS Word and WordPad are OK with it, though. So, it may be uncommon compressed format (its size is about 1/2 of the same text saved by Word or WordPad, and about 1/4 of the same text in Unicode). RTFUnicode seemed to work just fine on a standard, generated by Word or WordPad non-unicode Cyrillic RTF file. Last edited by porkupan; 11-20-2006 at 03:46 PM.