It may be useful to treat other languages, like greek, japanese, chinese, hebrew, arabic and other ones that uses a different alphabet.

Using Notepad or Wordpad we can deal with subtitles in srt files too, using other programs for subtitling, like Subtitle Edit or
Subtitle Workshop, saving them in txt in Unicode or UTF mode for example, in a way that they display correctly in our system.

Just use some adaptations for each case or language to deal with. For me I could do it for hebrew and russian languages in my PC.

My native alphabet is brazilian portuguese.

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> I have a text file encoded as Windows Cyrillic. But it is always displayed
> as Windows Western. On the Font dialog in Notepad, I selected Cyrillic
> (with Courier New), both before and after going to the Open File dialog
> (with ANSI encoding selected). I tried the same thing using the character
> set selector in Wordpad (with Arial).
>
> How do I get Notepad or Wordpad to display Windows Cyrillic text files
> correctly?
>
Both are Unicode programs now (unlike Windows 95 times) and
both are _bad_ choice of reading Cyrillic text
(it still can be done, but with some tricks):

No need to change your system settings.


1) The best choice is a NON-Unicode plain text editor - there are
many of them on shareware.com or on tucowes.com
I use http://UltraEdit.com

In such editor, because it's a non-Unicode program you _can_
choose say "Courier New" then choose "Script=Cyrillic" and
work with Cyrillic text files normally


2) Second choice is MS Word ver. 2000 and higher
There you can _explicitely_ specify the encoding of your
text file and thus it will work Ok .

3) In Notepad, you can do that with a trick - you can use, instead
of standard Unicode fonts of your system such as "Arial" or
"Courier new" another font, old Cyrillic font, non-Unicode one
made for Windows 3.1 - just choose it in Notepad's menu


Regards,

Paul Gorodyansky

"Cyrillic (Russian): instructions for Windows and Internet":
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Source:

http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/WinXP/microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics/2004-08/5582.html

Best regards.

devil (johner)