Re: Will OASIS/XML format be supported?

From: M. Fioretti (m.fioretti@inwind.it)
Date: Sun Apr 13 2003 - 18:04:46 EDT

  • Next message: Dom Lachowicz: "Re: Will OASIS/XML format be supported?"

    On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 16:41:09 at 04:41:09PM -0500, ericzen (ericzen@ez-net.com) wrote:
    [snip]
    >
    > To answer a question you asked Dom, when we try bringing in another format, we
    > risk dataloss.
    > In this case, we simply mean that the information doesn't get transferred over.
    > Smart quotes may appears as strange marks, or like %4887;.
    Isn't this an encoding, rather than file format issue? Since we are at
    this, what about Unicode? Can AbiWord save by default with UTF-8
    encoding?

    > Sorry for the information cascade; didn't really know how to organize my
    > thoughts on this one.
    All the contrary, I'm receiving all the feedback I was hoping for, and
    almost in real time: thanks!
            
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