Urmas wrote on Mon, 1 Aug 2011 23:25:51 +0700:
> The inability of users of marginal OS's with ~1% popularity to set it
> correctly definitely is not a reason to negatively affect users of other
> OS's, which can be easily set up accordingly to user-preferred language
> setting, including codepage for legacy documents.
I didn't speak of inability, but of a deliberate use. Not all users stay with
the codepage and/or the OS they used in Write times.
Common benefit (i.e. general usage) takes precedence over personal benefit.
>>> Importer parameters can be specified only in batch conversions, not when
>>> opening a document in a standard way.
>>
>> Hmmm, then I'm doing something wrong, because this patch works just fine as a
>> command line argument to AbiWord, translating all Write documents into the
>> given codepage when opening.
>>
> Because you're setting importer properties from global variable, parsed
> from arguments, instead of using preset properties from IE_Imp. It's a
> hack.
Well, I'd be delighted to see a "non-hack" solution that does the job then.
Ingo
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