Ever opened a file and seen strange symbols or jumbled text? This post shows how to change the character encoding in Excel or Word.

Many of the fonts included with Microsoft Windows have support for languages with non-Latin characters such as Hebrew, Greek and Arabic. However, you must configure Outlook 2010 to use Unicode UTF-8 ...

While it may not look like much, the image above is a piece of the original email where [Ken Thompson] described what would become the implementation of UTF-8. At the dawn of the computer age in ...