WD2002: Asian Characters Are Displayed When You Change Encoding in HTML Document to Unicode (286894)



The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Word 2002

This article was previously published under Q286894

SYMPTOMS

When you are editing an HTML document in Microsoft Word, and you change the Encoding setting under Web Options to Unicode or Unicode (Big-Endian), the document may unexpectedly display numerous Asian characters.

CAUSE

This behavior can occur if the document contains characters that are not supported by Unicode.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:7/27/2006
Keywords:kbbug kbpending KB286894