Re: Text import broken

Subject: Re: Text import broken
From: Michael D. Pritchett (mpritchett@attglobal.net)
Date: Fri Apr 20 2001 - 21:22:40 CDT

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----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Dunbar <hippietrail@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 7:40 PM

> Sometime over the past 2 to 4 days text import has
> been broken at least on Windows builds.
>
> I have looked into the problem and I've found that
> when the 8 bit characters are converted to the 16-bit
> internal representation that the two bytes are swapped
> incorrectly.
>
> Thus a space character is converted from
> 0x20 to 0x2000 instead of 0x0020.
>
> Other importers are not affected. Text export may
> have
> the same problem.
>
> Not sure about other platforms. Somebody please
> check.
>
> Andrew.

Andrew -

I think that I fixed this problem. The latest CVS should now just work.
Let me know if I missed it.

Cheers!

Michael D. Pritchett

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