Subject: Re: Patch: Multi-encoding Text import/export
From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat May 19 2001 - 12:31:47 CDT
Vlad Harchev wrote:
>
> On Sun, 20 May 2001, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
>
> > Sam TH wrote:
> > > Other than that, this is excellent.
> >
> > Thanks! I've found that we must make the Text Encoding a per-
> > document feature instead of based entirely on the locale.
> > I need to know how to add an "encoding" field to AbiWord's
> > document class - this will also be very useful for at least
> > the HTML and RTF importers and exporters - probably more.
>
> I think they are needed. Both RTF and HTML formats pretty precisely specify
> encoding (RTF - in some backward way) - so it's not necessary. The only use is
> if someone exported file by (or wants to export for importing into) some
> widely spread non-following specs app. I don't know ones that satisfy both
> conditions :)
Sorry Vlad. I don't understand if you're saying adding this is
a good or a bad idea. I think it's an essential idea so we can
load an HTML document in Shift-JIS encoding and save it as a plain
text file in EUC-JP encoding on a machine with an English locale.
Just the kind of thing I use MS Word for now...
Andrew Dunbar.
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