From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue May 27 2003 - 23:08:34 EDT
--- Tomas Frydrych <tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net>
wrote: >
>
> > > ie_imp_Text.cpp: made the importer quit with
> error
> > > if characters that
> > > should not be present in a text document are
> found
> > > (this is to
> > > prevent folk abusing the importer by trying to
> load
> > > binary files).
> >
> > Unless you've mis-communicated something, I think
> that
> > this is wrong behavior. It's quite common to want
> to
> > look at (say) a PDF file in an editor, which would
> be
> > interpreted as binary by this new code. What are
> the
> > reasons you did this?
>
> There are bugs in the bugzilla relating to people
> trying to load all
> kinds of things (executables, etc). I know that
> sometimes people want
> to look at executables and another binary files, but
> that's not what
> wordprocessors are for. If people want to examine
> such files, they
> should use a text editor, IMO.
Or MS Word which is robust enough to handle this
even without being open-source.
</facetious>
I'm with Dom. If we fix all these bugs, we will also
be able to handle arbitrarily corrupted documents.
Andrew.
> Tomas
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