Subject: Re: exporting chars with values > 0x7f into Doc format
From: Dom Lachowicz (cinamod@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Sep 26 2000 - 12:58:31 CDT
Be my guest. I'm planning on overhauling the importer soon, so it'll be good
to have this in place before then. Submit a patch and I'll test/commit it.
Dom
>From: Vlad Harchev <hvv@hippo.ru>
>To: abiword-dev@abisource.com
>Subject: exporting chars with values > 0x7f into Doc format
>Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 21:15:02 +0500 (SAMST)
>
>
> I've just looked at the code for exporting to Word - it exports
>characters
>with values > 0x7f as &#xUUU; (e.g. ÷). It's wrong - word doesn't
>understand them (at least from office 2000 and wordpad from Win95).
>Word2000
>just outputs 2 raw bytes when it writes any characters, LSB first.
>
> Wouldn't you mind if I fixed this to make files understandable by Word?
>
> Best regards,
> -Vlad
>
>
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