FC4 / character encoding - Writer / gedit

[Marc M]

I got this message on a new build FC4 machine that says that

gedit was not able to automatically detect the character coding. Please,
check that you are not trying to open a binary file and try again selecting
a character coding in the 'Open File...' (or 'Open Location') dialog.

Writer app is unable to open the .doc file that someone sent me. I have no
idea how to check if it is binary or not and I thought that mainly meant
flat text files.

I am poking around Writer but havent' fixed it, any ideas anyone or is there
a quick rpm I can grab for another app that might work better than Writer or
gedit?

Thanks in advance --
Marc
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