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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Unicode in KWord/KOffice
From:       Reginald Stadlbauer <reggie () alpha ! tat ! physik ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date:       1999-04-20 20:27:26
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On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, weis@stud.uni-frankfurt.de wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Reginald Stadlbauer wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, weis@stud.uni-frankfurt.de wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Reginald Stadlbauer wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi!
> > > > As I'm using QChar as basetype of KWord's string class now, KWord should now
> > > > support Unicode (is this correct?)
> > > > 
> > > > But: How does this look like for saving/loading text now. Currently I'm using
> > > > something similar to QString::ascii() to get the text, which should be saved.
> > > > So this means that KWord doesn't save the text unicoded now. But how should we
> > > > do that. How can I pass a unicoded string (array of QChar) to a ostream (we are
> > > > using this for saving at the moment). Or should we maybe use the Qt stream
> > > > classes for saving/loading in KOffice now?
> > > 
> > > We need to save un UTF8 format. Warwick: How can I read/write UTF8 
> > > from/to QString ?
> > 
> > Maybe
> > 
> >     QCString QString::utf8() const;
> >     static QString QString::fromUtf8(const char*, int len=-1);
> 
> Ooops, I did not find that in the docu. Stupid me!
> 
> > help? :-))
> > 
> > So all I need to do for saving is using QString::utf8() instead of
> > QString::ascii() and for loading QString::fromUtf8()?
> 
> Almost. Somehow that has to be mentioned in the first XML tag.
> i have to read the standard to find out what needs to be written
> so that every parser understands that.
> 
> or does anybody know ?

I think 
<?xml version="1" encoding="UTF-8"?>
should do it.

Ciao, Reggie

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