Re: MSWord import

Subject: Re: MSWord import
From: Dom Lachowicz (cinamod@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Nov 10 2000 - 02:45:47 CST

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I'll do it. I've been putting it off for too long now.

Dom

>From: Vlad Harchev <hvv@hippo.ru>
>To: abiword-dev@abisource.com
>Subject: Re: MSWord import
>Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 12:00:37 +0400 (SAMT)
>
>On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Vlad Harchev wrote:
>
> Just thought some more - and I think that wvHandleCodePage() is guilty.
> It's used by
> int CharProc(wvParseStruct *ps,U16 eachchar,U8 chartype,U16 lid)
> in ie_imp_MsWord_97.cpp
>
> wvHandleCodePage() doesn't try to swap bytes in the order iconv expects
>them (i.e. it will work on glibcs older than the one in RH7).
> I think iconv order autodetection should be added to wv.
> Sorry I don't have time for this.
>
>
> > On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Martin Sevior wrote:
> >
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I should say I import english and russian docs without any trouble on
>RH6.0
> > with yesterday's AW.
> > But last time I saw text.c from wv I had impression that it wouldn't
>work on
> > RH7 correctly (leading to results you described).
> > Are you both using RH7 now?
> >
> > If yes, all invocations of iconv() in text.c should be hacked to swap
>bytes
> > properly (if they are not already).
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi guys,
> > > >
> > > > I've encountered a show-stopper: MSWord docs no longer import for
>me. This
> > > > is *not* a bug in wv. I would know... wv still works fine, I've
>tested it
> > > > extensively tonight. All of the characters get re-mapped to question
>marks,
> > > > which happens to be the fallback char in XAP_EncodingManager.cpp.
>Will
> > > > someone please fix this?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Wow. I was just using Abi to read word documents on RedHat 6.2. It was
> > > great.
> > >
> > >
> > > This must be a iconv problem again :-(
> > >
> > > Martin
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Best regards,
> > -Vlad
> >
>
> Best regards,
> -Vlad
>
>

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