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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Features that KWord should have
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicog () snafu ! de>
Date:       2001-09-16 21:13:42
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On Sunday, 16. September 2001 10:43, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 09:53:24PM +0200, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> > > I think I filed one a long time ago.  Let me see if I can dig it back
> > > out... Here it is: "Bug#30358: (KWord should have a "MS-DOS Text"
> > > output filter)"
>
> <snip>
>
> hmm, a mac output filter has more then the normal problems, in that the Mac
> uses another ASCII table.

Yes, the Mac use another encoding. However, the end of line option of Kate 
and KWrite permits the user to choose also CR alone. So I think that the 
KWord filter should allow this too.

>
> I solve that with the command line tool 'recode', maybe using that is a
> good start for solving this problem.

I think that it would be better to be able to choose the encoding. QT's 
QTextCodec have now "Apple Roman". I suppose that this should be the right 
encoding for a Mac.

Have a nice day/evening/night!

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