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    copied!<p>I have a document which has been sloppily authored. It's a dictionary that contains cyrillic characters. Most of the dictionary is manageable, but I'm stuck with one thing I need help with. Words have accented letters in them and they're mostly formatted properly as a letter with a unicode accent (thus forming a single letter). However there are some very peculiar letters that look similar for example to: a;´ (where "a" is any arbitrary cyrillic letter). You'd expect á in its place. However it wouldn't be a problem per se if only this thing could be exported to, say HTML and manipulated in a text editor. The problem is that Word treats this "thing" as a single character/entity and</p> <ul> <li>when exporting it is COMPLETELY omitted</li> <li>when copied it can only be pasted into Notepad (which translates it into three separate characters), when being pasted into WordPad it just won't appear at all.</li> <li>when a search is run in Word it won't find the letter, neither the actual character nor the exactly copied/pasted combination.</li> <li>the letter will disappear when the document is opened in any other software, such as Libre Office</li> </ul> <p>At this point I'm trying to:</p> <ul> <li>understand what this combination is exactly</li> <li>run a search/replace operation to find and weed out all of those errors</li> </ul> <p><a href="http://www.smallfiles.org/download/2823/dicterr.doc.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Here's</a> a sample Word file.</p> <p>Here's a screenshot of the word/letter in question:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/XTYCe.png" alt="enter image description here"></p> <p>which when typed correctly should appear like "<code>скре́пка</code>".</p>
 

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