Subject: Re: exporting chars with values > 0x7f into Doc format
From: Vlad Harchev (hvv@hippo.ru)
Date: Tue Sep 26 2000 - 13:27:26 CDT
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> 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.
Thanks you. But it seems that I will post a big patch that will i18nize AW,
rather than splitting into by-module patches.
Please see my next message - I'm having problems with export to Word.
> 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
>
Best regards,
-Vlad
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