On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 15:05 +0200, Ingo Brueckl wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I endorse a possibility of having a codepage detection and don't like a fixed
> one either, but I really don't see how this detection from the font name will
> work. On all Windows PCs I know, "Arial" is named "Arial", for example, and
> that's the way the font is stored in the .wri document. Isn't that true for
> Eastern European Windows, too?
>
> And even if there are different font names, a default of 1250 isn't
> advisable, because my "Arial" (not detected through cp_suf_tbl) is most
> certainly 1252.
>
> AFAIK there is no information in the .wri file allowing to decide which
> codepage would be right. So the only way to go seems to be to either make
> this configurable or to detect it from the underlaying system abiword is
> running on. And even this wouldn't allow to open all .wri documents
> correctly, so configuration seems to be safest way.
>
> The patch shouldn't be applied (with this detection method).
Do we have a clue how Write itself chooses the codepage?
Cheers!
Marc
Received on Tue Jun 1 16:35:32 2010
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