What do you mean when you say you can't open the converted data file as plain text? That is, what operation are you using on the converted data that is failing? What, exactly, are you expecting, and what, exactly, is actually happening?

If the data consists of Cyrillic characters, then it is "plain text in Cyrillic" (what else do you expect it to be?), and any process or application that can handle that sort of data should have no problem with it. But if you are using some process that isn't set up to handle Cyrillic characters -- or that expects some different character encoding than what your data file uses (e.g. utf8 vs. utf16 or iso-8859-5 or koi8-r or cp1251 or ...) -- then this is bound to do something strange.

In reply to Re: Cyrillic to plain text by graff
in thread Cyrillic to plain text by Arba

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