Convert DOS Cyrillic text to Unicode

[Nikolay Petrov]

How can I convert DOS cyrillic text to Unicode

[Cor Ligthert]

Hi John,

It's probably best if you email it to me.

I am also interested in this question, so why not mail to the newsgroup?

Cor

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Cor Ligthert <no**********@p lanet.nl> wrote:

It's probably best if you email it to me.

I am also interested in this question, so why not mail to the
newsgroup?

It's more that depending on the way of attaching the file, it might get
converted during the attachment process - that's less likely to happen
in a mail message.

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[Cor Ligthert]

> It's more that depending on the way of attaching the file, it might get

converted during the attachment process - that's less likely to happen
in a mail message.

So I wait the results and than you can maybe send it to me when all is
clear?

Cor

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Cor Ligthert <no**********@p lanet.nl> wrote:

It's more that depending on the way of attaching the file, it might get
converted during the attachment process - that's less likely to happen
in a mail message.

So I wait the results and than you can maybe send it to me when all is
clear?

Yup, sure. I suspect there's nothing particularly interesting about the
file though - it's just I should be able to work out what encoding it's
in, so that if the OP *does* want to read it directly (rather than with
c'n'p) he should be able to.

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[Nikolay Petrov]

Ok guys, I have mailed it to both of you

I'll also but some of this DOS text here, case anyone else is interested

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Nikolay Petrov <jo******@mail. bg> wrote:

The user pasts text from text files, which contain DOS Cyrillic characters.

What does he have the text open in? It sounds like the existing app is
probably not putting it into the clipboard in Unicode :(

When they are pasted in text box or even in the Notepad windows they

look like garbage.

Ah - I thought you meant he had it working in notepad to start with.

I am not sure, can I post a file here as attachment, so you can see it?

It's probably best if you email it to me.

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[Nikolay Petrov]

New problem ;-(
Text is encoded partialy.
All calital letters are fine, and some of the lower, but not all.
What may coused this?

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How can I convert DOS cyrillic text to Unicode

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Nikolay Petrov <jo******@mail. bg> wrote:

New problem ;-(
Text is encoded partialy.
At what stage?
All calital letters are fine, and some of the lower, but not all.
What may coused this?

No idea - are you saying the original files are corrupt, basically?

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[Paul Gorodyansky]

Hi,

"Nikolay Petrov" <jo******@mail. bg> wrote in message news:<eu******* *******@TK2MSFT NGP10.phx.gbl>. ..

New problem ;-(
Text is encoded partialy.
All calital letters are fine, and some of the lower, but not all.
What may coused this?

"Nikolay Petrov" <jo******@mail. bg> wrote in message
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How can I convert DOS cyrillic text to Unicode

You did not answer Jon's question, but it was critical -
in what _program_ your user opens a text file with DOS Cyrillic?

I am working with Cyrillic encodings since 1995 :) so I dealt
with most of them, including CP-866.

The easiest way in your scenario would be:

Open that DOS Cyrillic .txt file in MS Word 2000 or newer,
choosing "Cyrillic (DOS)" encoding in the process:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homep.../cp_e.htm#open

Now your user should see normal Russian text - in Unicode already
converted by Word and can paste it itno your text box.

Otherwise, if you try to open a file that contains text in
DOS Cyrillic encoding in some regular MS Windows text editor,
you *will* see just gibberish - editor expects one of _Windows_
encodings, not a DOS one.

There are many more ways to get it done, say converter programs that
make "Cyrillic(Windo ws), 1251" text from your DOS Cyrillic text,
I18n-aware editors that - as Word - offer you to specify explicitely
what is the encoding of your file - such as
http://www.esperanto.mv.ru/UniRed/ENG/
etc., etc.

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Regards,
Paul Gorodyansky
"Cyrillic (Russian): instructions for Windows and Internet":
http://RusWin.net
Russian On-screen Keyboard: http://Kbd.RusWin.net