Russian text, how to encode

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Russian text, how to encode

Hi friends, its the first time I'm using an apple device and I just found a problem with my russian texts (not all of them, I can write and create my own documents without a problem, and most of the emails I receive are fine).

But some of the texts I receive show weird signs instead of normal russian text f. ex. "œÒÎÂÌË‰ËÊ‡ Ì –Â–Ó"

I used to work with windows, using the "notepad++" program. When I had this problem, I used to encode to ansi, change to win1251 cyrillic, then re-encode to uff-8 and the text became normal again. But I can't find the way to repeat that actions with the TextEdit program (I've been trying other options like Editra and TextWrangler but I couldn't find any way to do the same as in notepad++ ).

It would be great if you could help me to solve this problem. Thanks.

MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015), OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

Posted on Jan 13, 2016 5:24 AM

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Tom Gewecke

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Jan 13, 2016 11:10 AM in response to Salvi_Luna

Normally you should be able to fix this by saving your text in TextEdit or TextWrangler with the encoding set to Win Latin 1 (=ANSI) and then opening it again with the right Cyrillic encoding. Could you email me a sample text (tom at bluesky dot org)?

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Salvi_Luna Author

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Jan 15, 2016 4:14 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Thanks for the tip! I finally could achieve to change the documents. As you said, I had to save it first in Win (what apparently changes nothing) and the re-open with cyrillic. It's a two step process, but easy and fast. Thank you very much Tom!

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