Appleworks MS Office Convertor and Chinese files

I have many AW6 word processor files written in Chinese(Simplified). When I save one as Microsoft Word file, all Chinese characters become "?" when opened in either Mac or Windows version of Microsoft Word (Version 11). And AW6's MS Word convertor also couldn't import Chinese characters in Word files correctly into Appleworks WP.
Appleworks for Mac (non-Asian version) has supported Worldscript since Clarisworks 4, but it's sure some of its import convertors do not. and all non-Asian Clarisworks/Appleworks for Windows don't support Chinese at all.

Appleworks is pre-Unicode, so all the Chinese is probably in an encoding which today's apps don't read correctly without special measures.
You might be able to open the AW with TextEdit if you set the encoding first to Chinese (Mac OS). Or with Word if you still have the Chinese fonts used by AW (Beijing and Taipei I think) and can make Word use them.
For best advice on how to convert your stuff, I suggest you ask on the Chinese-Mac mailing list:
http://groups.google.com/group/chinesemac/

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