Subject: Re: fix for wv
From: ha shao (hashao@china.com)
Date: Fri Nov 17 2000 - 22:26:59 CST
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 09:24:05PM +0400, hvv@hippo.ru wrote:
>
> wv was really terribly broken for word6 format files. Here is a patch that
> fixes this.
>
> To CJK guys:
>
> * Now word6.doc from _Belcon_ gets imported properly too (and word2k document
> from Chih-Wei Huang also OK)
>
> * word6.doc from Chih-Wei Huang's mail I've forwarded here doesn't import
> properly - (chars are not converted to unicode) since wv thinks it's in
> word7 format (!) - wvQuerySupported(&ps->fib,NULL) returns WORD7, so it
> seems there is no clean workaround/hack for importing it (may be wordpad is
> that broken - is word able to read this file ? And what version of windows
> wordpad is used from - is it from win2k or from NT or from win9x?).
> IMO the only hack that can be used - is to check whether the
> arrived character's code is less (or more or is in the range) than some
> constant for given charset, and if doesn't satisfy constraints on the value,
> its character type is set to '1' to force conversion to unicode.
I only see word6 and word8/Word97 document at
http://www.wotsit.org/search.asp?s=text
So it might as well that WORD7 do not use unicode either. It looks
like that word6 has more common features with Word95 than
word8 has with word95.
I only see one place in the word97 document mentioned unicode with word95
that state:
=====
XCHAR( eXtended CHARacter set):
A data type which defines a "character". Each XCHAR corresponds to a character in the document, where "character" is defined as
a glyph, regardless of whether it is a single-byte or double-byte character. With Word6/FE, Word95/FE, Word97/all and future
versions of Word, this is defined as a 16-bit integer corresponding to the Unicode character code of the glyph.
======
where /FE means far-east.
If set chartype to 1 for word7 format also get proper result for
.doc import under other languages(russian?), we can assume word7
behave similarly with word6 in this aspect. What do you think?
-- Best regard ha_shao
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