Encoding standards for opening and saving files

Microsoft Office Word 2003

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  1. Start the Microsoft Office Setup program.

  2. On the Advanced Customization screen, expand Office Shared Features, and then expand International Support.

  3. Select the item you need, click the arrow next to your selection, and then select Run from My Computer.

Languages, their encoding standards, and the font Microsoft Word applies when you open or save a file

ShowMultilingual/Unicode/Other script

Encoding standard is Unicode (UCS-2 little-endian and big-endian, UTF-8, UTF-7). Word applies the default font based on the Normal style for your language version of Word.

ShowArabic

Encoding standards are Windows 1256, ASMO 708. Word applies Courier New.

ShowSimplified Chinese

Encoding standards are GB2312, GBK, EUC-CN, ISO-2022-CN, HZ. Word applies SimSun.

ShowTraditional Chinese

Encoding standards are BIG5, EUC-TW, ISO-2022-TW. Word applies MingLiU.

ShowCyrillic

Encoding standards are Windows 1251, KOI8-R, KOI8-RU, ISO8859-5, DOS 866. Word applies Courier New.

ShowEnglish/Western European/Other Latin script

Encoding standards are Windows 1250, 1252-1254, 1257, ISO8859-x. Word applies Courier New.

ShowGreek

Encoding standard is Windows 1253. Word applies Courier New.

ShowHebrew

Encoding standard is Windows 1255. Word applies Courier New.

ShowJapanese

Encoding standards are Shift-JIS, ISO-2022-JP (JIS), EUC-JP. Word applies MS Gothic.

ShowKorean

Encoding standards are Wansung, Johab, ISO-2022-KR, EUC-KR. Word applies GulimChe.

ShowThai

Encoding standard is Windows 874. Word applies Tahoma.

ShowVietnamese

Encoding standard is Windows 1258. Word applies Courier New.

ShowIndic languages

The following languages use Indian Script Code for Information Interchange (ISCII) encoding standards.

Use of these languages requires system support and the appropriate OpenType fonts.

Note  Only limited support is available for Nepali, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Malayalam, and Oriya.

Tamil
ISCII code page number is 57004. Word applies Latha.
Nepali
ISCII code page number is 57002 (Devanagari). Word applies Mangal.
Konkani
ISCII code page number is 57002 (Devanagari). Word applies Mangal.
Hindi
ISCII code page number is 57002 (Devanagari). Word applies Mangal.
Assamese
ISCII code page number is 57006.
Bengali
ISCII code page number is 57003.
Gujarati
ISCII code page number is 57010.
Kannada
ISCII code page number is 57008.
Malayalam
ISCII code page number is 57009.
Oriya
ISCII code page number is 57007.
Marathi
ISCII code page number is 57002 (Devanagari).
Punjabi
ISCII code page number is 57011.
Sanskrit
ISCII code page number is 57002 (Devanagari).
Telugu
ISCII code page number is 57005.
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