From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Feb 15 2002 - 11:42:02 GMT
--- Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere@teaser.fr> wrote: >
----- Forwarded message from
> owner-abiword-dev@abisource.com -----
>
> Hello,
Hi there.
> I found that the following Unicode Private User
> character defined in
> AbiWord 0.9.6 conflicted with our charset:
>
> UCS_FIELDSTART 0xe000
> UCS_FIELDEND 0xe001
> UCS_BOOKMARKSTART 0xe002
> UCS_BOOKMARKEND 0xe003
>
> I read from the mail archives that these character
> is actually move from
> elsewhere. If I move them to other position to
> resolve the conflict,
> will that create any drawback? Actually what is the
> purpose of those
> special character?
Yes I moved them. I think we only had the first two
at that time. They are used internally by AbiWord.
And are assumed not to be imported by any document.
This is not a good assumption and we really need to
redesign this part of the code IMHO to use some kind
of
out-of-band data instead of overriding the characters.
Possibly we can find some true "never to be used"
characters but I doubt it. The people who know these
parts of the code (please grep for them) should be
able
to discuss the whys, wherefores, and possible
solutions
in this list. Before I moved them there were in
conflicted with illegal and/or BOM codes from memory
which messed with importers and exporters and
generally
seemed like a bad idea.
> Regards,
> Fencol Yung
Hope someone has a good idea to fix this. Merely
moving them around is probably going to keep breaking
somebody's private stuff here and there...
Andrew Dunbar.
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