Unicode Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v5.32, by Herong Yang
What Is Microsoft Word
This section provides a quick introduction of Microsoft Word - a document authoring and publishing tool. Microsoft Word can be used to edit Unicode text files with various encodings.
What Is Microsoft Word? Microsoft Word is a document authoring and publishing tool that is included in the Microsoft Office product suite.
Microsoft Word is mainly used to edit documents formatted for printing. But it also be used to open and save Unicode text files in encoded formats.
Microsoft Word supports at least 4 Unicode encodings: Unicode, Unicode (Big-Endian), Unicode (UTF-7) and Unicode (UTF-8).
Here is a screenshot of Microsoft Word:
Table of Contents
ASCII Character Set and Encoding
GB2312 Character Set and Encoding
GB18030 Character Set and Encoding
JIS X0208 Character Set and Encodings
UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation Format - 8-Bit)
UTF-16, UTF-16BE and UTF-16LE Encodings
UTF-32, UTF-32BE and UTF-32LE Encodings
Python Language and Unicode Characters
Java Language and Unicode Characters
Encoding Conversion Programs for Encoded Text Files
Using Notepad as a Unicode Text Editor
►Using Microsoft Word as a Unicode Text Editor
Saving Files in "Unicode (UTF-8)" Option
Saving Files in "Unicode (Big-Endian)" Option
Saving Files in Unicode Option
Supported Save and Open File Formats