Greek in Word problem

[Juss1 S4lm1]

Hello!

I have the following problem:

My wife used the following program to change ancient greek text in
beta-code (a code for writing ancient greek with latin alphabet) to
actual ancient gree text.

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~tayl0010/polytonic-greek-inputter.html

At work she used Times New Roman (Windows XP, Word probably 2003), but
at home, when she did this for two days, she accidentally used Tahoma
(Windows XP, Word 2003). Now the text that she wrote at home shows as
squares in her computer in her job, even though the computer there has
also Tahoma. How can this situation be corrected? Is it enough to just
change the font to Times at home, where the text shows correctly? She
has Finnish-language Word at home and English-language version at home.

Even though the problem might actually seem to be not mine, but my
wife's, it will very soon be my problem if I can't fix it.

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Juss1 S4lm1

[Lou Ravi]

Juss1 S4lm1 wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have the following problem:
>
> My wife used the following program to change ancient greek text in
> beta-code (a code for writing ancient greek with latin alphabet) to
> actual ancient gree text.
>
> http://users.ox.ac.uk/~tayl0010/polytonic-greek-inputter.html
>
> At work she used Times New Roman (Windows XP, Word probably 2003), but
> at home, when she did this for two days, she accidentally used Tahoma
> (Windows XP, Word 2003). Now the text that she wrote at home shows as
> squares in her computer in her job, even though the computer there has
> also Tahoma. How can this situation be corrected? Is it enough to just
> change the font to Times at home, where the text shows correctly? She
> has Finnish-language Word at home and English-language version at
> home.

That's the first things to try. Either Select All and change it, or copy
it somewhere else and change it if you're worried about losing it.

[Juss1 S4lm1]

Lou Ravi kirjoitti:
> Juss1 S4lm1 wrote:

>> My wife used the following program to change ancient greek text in
>> beta-code (a code for writing ancient greek with latin alphabet) to
>> actual ancient gree text.

>> Now the text that she wrote at home shows as
>> squares in her computer in her job, even though the computer there has
>> also Tahoma. How can this situation be corrected?

> That's the first things to try. Either Select All and change it, or copy

> it somewhere else and change it if you're worried about losing it.

My wife could finally solve the problem by first copying the text and
then pasteing it. So she could get the text right again by using just
ctrl-a, ctrl-c and ctrl-v. Apparently Windows re-interpreted the
characters when pasteing it back to Word and managed to get the coding
done correctly. At first, when she just loaded the text from disk,
Windows probably did not pay any attention to character coding.

It turned out that she has Word 2002 at work and Word 2003 at home, so
probably this was the case of some minor changes in Word between these
versions or between the fonts.

Thanks for the help anyway!

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Juss1 S4lm1