Subject: Re: concerns on export of CJK text to RTF
From: Dom Lachowicz (cinamod@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Nov 22 2000 - 11:19:05 CST
Ha Shao and others,
Please re-send me the Word6 patch. I might've applied it to the wvWare tree
and not the Abi tree. I'll diff the two a little later today and see if
there are any differences.
Dom
>From: Vlad Harchev <hvv@hippo.ru>
>To: abiword-dev@abisource.com
>Subject: Re: concerns on export of CJK text to RTF
>Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 20:29:50 +0400 (SAMT)
>
>On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, ha shao wrote:
>
> I've attached a patch that should escape '\','{','}' when exporting to
>CJK.
>
> > On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 03:31:08PM +0400, hvv@hippo.ru wrote:
> > >
> > > Can it be that for some encoding (say Big5) the byte of multibyte
>sequence is
> > > some special RTF character like "\" or "}" or "{"? If yes, we have to
>quote
> > > them (with '\') when writing bytes of multibyte string to RTF file.
> > >
> >
> > Absolutely. The 2nd byte of a big5 char could be '\','{','}'. Actually,
> > the 2nd type of a big5 char can be pretty much anything. :) So
> > it's better to escape any thing that could be a RTF char. This exist
> > in BIG5, GBK (an extension to GB2312). GB2312 has no such problem.
> >
> > >
> > > As for the last ha shao's patch wv to to support word6 import of CJK
>docs -
> > > are there any reasons not to commit it? (I don't see any).
> > >
> >
> > I saw a email from Dom said that the patch was commited. It should be
>
> It's nice. I didn't follow carefully.
>
> > in cvs now. If word6 still does not import properly, it could be another
> > feature from MS. :)
> >
> > --
> > Best regard
> > ha_shao
> >
>
> Best regards,
> -Vlad
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