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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Bug#30437: Pasting between koffice apps fails on Cyrillic text
From:       Vadim Plessky <lucy-ples () mtu-net ! ru>
Date:       2001-08-26 8:27:13
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On Saturday 25 August 2001 14:15, Thomas Diehl wrote:
|   Am Samstag, 25. August 2001 14:02 schrieb David Faure:
|   > > KWord and KWrite are both capable of rendering cyrillic, using the
|   > > Russian keyboard.  I can create the Russian text in either
|   > > application, but if I copy and paste from one to the other, all
|   > > characters are represented by question marks. (that is the app
|   > > cannot render them).

No such problem here. :-)

|   >
|   > Does this still happen with KOffice-1.1-rc1 ? (Update to KDE-2.2
|   > while you're at it :) Is the bug both ways, or only when pasting into
|   > KWord ?
|   > You say both ways, but I'm quite surprised. Can you retest and
|   > confirm ?

I can confirm that (using KDE 2.2beta1 and KOffice 1.1beta1) I can paste 
Cyrillic text from KWord to Kwrite and KMail, and from KWrite to KWord and 
Kmail, etc.

Here is a simple test:
- - - 
Academy 13pt * Академическая
1234567890 !" �$%^&*()_+-=[]{}#~;:'@,.<>/?
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
абвгдеёжзийклмнопрстуфхцчшщъыьэюя
АБВГДЕЁЖЗИЙКЛМНОП� СТУФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ
- - - 
(it's Russian characters, but I am sure you can use now KDE for Bulgarian, 
Serbian and Macedonian as well)

But, there is a following problem: if AA is not enabled (RENDER ext. is 
missing), some fonts (which have cp-1251 encoding, not Unicode) are not 
listed in KWord at all.
I guess it's a KWord bug.
 Probably bug #30437 is related to this.

|
|   FWIW: I can cut and paste cyrillic text both ways (Bulgarian
|   translations of PO files). This is with AA being active and KWrite set
|   to Arial Unicode.
|

My KWrite is set to Andale Mono, microsoft-cp1251 encoding.
KDE has as system settings Linotype Palatino font
(Linotype Palatino has better hinting than MS's Arial and Times New Roman :-)

|   I noticed, however, a _long_ delay until a the string actually appeared
|   in KWord when using the KDE clipboard. Something like 8 seconds for one
|   string of just 6 or 7 short words (no difference between latin and
|   cyrillic characters here).
|
|   Using the X clipboard (middle mousebutton) also worked and would only
|   produce a delay of 1 or 2 seconds.
|
|   KDE 2.2 was newly compiled, KOffice maybe a week or ten days old.
|
|   Regards,
|
|   Thomas

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