Completely weird phenomenon...
Feb. 14th, 2006 07:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI am forced to try to write a translation in Semagic (or something other than Word), because every attempt to do so in Word fails in a really strange way.
Example source sentence:
This has been happening intermittently on my machine ever since I "upgraded" to the latest-greatest Word, and it is a royal pain in the tochus because there is no trace of anything like this having happened in the Undo buffer (in other words, Ctrl+Z doesn't help me here).
Farblegarg.
Cheers...
UPDATE: After looking around, I unchecked the 'Detect language automatically' checkbox under Tools|Language|Set Language. I'm not supremely confident that this is the cause of my problem (I was not able to find anything apropos in the MS Knowledge Base), but it's worth trying just to see if it has any effect. I've never touched this option in earlier versions of Word, and suspect turning it off will play merry havoc when it comes to spell-checking the finished document. On the other hand, if it works, being able to actually type stuff probably trumps that convenience.
Example source sentence:
Рзм #10Ю=А6-J1 кбл 17КС.10Ю 8210А-3340 <-> от рзм J1 БП PCS PWR SUPPLYThe proper translation is:
Cnctr #10Ю=А6-J1 of cbl 17КС.10Ю 8210А-3340 <-> from cnctr J1 БП PCS PWR SUPPLYCriminy! Here's what the translation immediately becomes upon pasting the above line into my Word file:
Стсек №10Ю=А6-О1 ща сид 17КСю10Ю 8210А-3340 Б-Ю акщь стсек О1 БП ЗСЫ ЗЦК ЫГЗЗДН.It would appear that all character positions on the standard US keyboard, except numbers and spaces, have been converted to the respective positions on the standard Cyrillic keyboard.
This has been happening intermittently on my machine ever since I "upgraded" to the latest-greatest Word, and it is a royal pain in the tochus because there is no trace of anything like this having happened in the Undo buffer (in other words, Ctrl+Z doesn't help me here).
Farblegarg.
Cheers...
UPDATE: After looking around, I unchecked the 'Detect language automatically' checkbox under Tools|Language|Set Language. I'm not supremely confident that this is the cause of my problem (I was not able to find anything apropos in the MS Knowledge Base), but it's worth trying just to see if it has any effect. I've never touched this option in earlier versions of Word, and suspect turning it off will play merry havoc when it comes to spell-checking the finished document. On the other hand, if it works, being able to actually type stuff probably trumps that convenience.
