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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Unicode - codepages - ???
From:       Harri Porten <porten () tu-harburg ! de>
Date:       1999-08-20 16:09:43
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Werner Trobin wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I'm reading text out of WinWord files. These characters are either
> stored as Unicode glyphs or as compressed Unicode characters (my
> documenation says Ms Word uses codepage 1252 for that).
> I want to read those characters (and if they are compressed covert
> them to Unicode).
> 
> My questions are: May I use Qt to convert the codepage 1252 chars to
> "normal" two byte Unicode chars? What do I have to do? Where do I
> get this codepage from? Is it available on every supported platform
> in every country, or do I have to write my own "mapper" (from
> codepage 1252 to Unicode)?

I don't know anything but codepage 1252 but Qt _can_ be used to do the
conversion. At least I got that impression when looking at the
QTextCodec. I saw stuff like UTF-8 in the sources.

Harri.

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