Encoding standards for opening and saving files

Microsoft Office Word 2003

Start the Microsoft Office Setup program.
On the Advanced Customization screen, expand Office Shared Features, and then expand International Support.
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

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.

Show Arabic

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

Show Simplified Chinese

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

Show Traditional Chinese

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

Show Cyrillic

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

Show English/Western European/Other Latin script

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

Show Greek

Encoding standard is Windows 1253. Word applies Courier New.

Show Hebrew

Encoding standard is Windows 1255. Word applies Courier New.

Show Japanese

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

Show Korean

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

Show Thai

Encoding standard is Windows 874. Word applies Tahoma.

Show Vietnamese

Encoding standard is Windows 1258. Word applies Courier New.

Show Indic 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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