Re: Latest CVS version doesn't work with MS Word 6.0


Subject: Re: Latest CVS version doesn't work with MS Word 6.0
From: Thomas Fletcher (thomasf@qnx.com)
Date: Wed Nov 15 2000 - 14:13:57 CST


On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Dom Lachowicz wrote:

> Can anyone please help me with this? Please, in wv, look at text.c
>
> *PLEASE* help me fix this iconv byte order problem. Apparently I'm not
> detecting the swapping correctly and I'm stumped. I'll send a box of donuts
> to whomever does this. This is a show-stopper and I won't allow a 0.7.12
> where this doesn't work on any platform.
>
> I'd *really* appreciate the help.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Dom

I've just tried to read the test word document (Word97Test.doc
in the abi test directory) and it totally end up being
gibberish. The log of the debug output it rather large,
but you can find it at

http://staff.qnx.com/~thomasf/abiword/wordfilelog.gz

I'll ask again ... anyone else seeing this change in behaviour
or is it just me.

Thomas
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Thomas (toe-mah) Fletcher QNX Software Systems
thomasf@qnx.com Neutrino Development Group
(613)-591-0931 http://www.qnx.com/~thomasf



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