Subject: Re: Latest CVS version doesn't work with MS Word 6.0
From: Vlad Harchev (hvv@hippo.ru)
Date: Wed Nov 15 2000 - 11:50:41 CST
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> ha shao wrote:
> >I think the swap bit call in wvHandleCodePage screwed Word6. :)
> >Maybe it is called in the invert sense or the swap routin need
> >more twick. In file wv/text.c line 340, change
> > if(!swap_iconv_u2n(iconv_handle, lid))
> >to
> > if(swap_iconv_u2n(iconv_handle, lid))
> >will give perfect(for my test file) result.
> >
> >I will leave it to Dom tell what's going wrong. :)
> This will fix the problem on machines that weren't experiencing the iconv
> problem before. But it won't fix the problem on say RH7 where the iconv byte
> order is still swapped. I think the swap_iconv_u2n() function needs fixing,
> but I don't know how to test it since I don't have access to say a RH6.2
> machine.
>
> Just to help me out some, does Abi/wv print "DOM: swapping iconv byte order
> 1 xxxx"
This message is printed only when importing docs in word6 format (tested with
CJK doc) for me (others are ok). When importing other files, this message
doesn't appear.
> Thanks,
> Dom
Best regards,
-Vlad
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