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Hi All,

I've be searching on the internet, but without any luck. I'm using Office 2003, I'm using Excel to save my terminology translations which means there are multiple languages being saved in a single file, e.g. English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, etc. I'm wondering how Excel handles this scenario? Which encoding it's using?

Can someone please shed some light on this topic? Any answer greatly appreciated!

-- Emen

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Fri Jan 25, 2008 7:37 am

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Hi All, I've be searching on the internet, but without any luck. I'm using Office 2003, I'm using Excel to save my terminology translations which means there... 		Emen Zhao
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It is using Unicode. If you want to save as text then you will sees a 'Unicode text file' option under 'Save As'. This will save in UTF-16....
Tim Greenwood
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Hi Emen, Be careful, though, if your are using bidi languages (Arabic, Hebrew). The bidi flow is not handled correctly in Excel 2003. The string is stored...
Martin Wunderlich
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