Subject: Re: Patch: Multi-encoding Text import/export
From: Vlad Harchev (hvv@hippo.ru)
Date: Mon May 21 2001 - 07:13:40 CDT
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> Vlad Harchev wrote:
> >
> > > Anyway I'm willing to implement this feature - I just need some
> > > pointers on how/where to add a new field to the internal document
> > > class.
> >
> > I don't understand why new field to existing document class is needed.
> > I think we should a special exporter/importer that allows to specify encoding
> > of the document under a name of base exporter/importer with something appended
> > (e.g. "HTML" and "HTML (encoded)" - as in OpenOffice). If user selects
> > "..(encoded)" version ,dialog pops up and asks what encoding to use).
>
> Of course, MS Word does much the same. But if we know which
> encoding a document uses when we load it we should remember this
> and set it initially in the dialog. This means we have to store
> it somewhere between import and export. Leaving it up to the
> user is annoying and time-consuming.
Yes, that would be very useful to have - I see this now. I don't know AW's
internals - but it may be better to store "charset for export" in some
document's property (a set of properties is not fixed, and they are identified
by string).
Best regards,
-Vlad
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