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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: PATCH: kspread html export
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicog () snafu ! de>
Date:       2001-07-30 0:17:16
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On Sunday, 29. July 2001 21:47, David Faure wrote:
> On Sunday 29 July 2001 22:32, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> > > -don't claim utf-8, because it isn't, at least with my tests?!
> >
> > Yes, this is KDE Bug #27882 "KSpread's HTML Export: wrong charset used or
> > declared" ( http://bugs.kde.org/db/27/27882.html )
> >
> > I had hoped that it would be solved the other way around, i.e. that the
> > filter exports in UTF-8 as KWord's HTML export filter, but I have never
> > got an answer to my bug report. :-(
>
> Exporting UTF-8 leads to a very ugly result if the user doesn't have a
> unicode font. I'm afraid the only option is to implement a filter dialog
> that has a combobox with the charsets, to let the user choose which charset
> he wants to use when exporting.

Using non-Unicode-encoding is more complicate than just a choice.

You have to filter out characters that are not in this (non-Unicode-) 
encoding and transform them in numeric character references (for example 
&#160; .) And KSpread's HTML filter does not do this and therefore does not 
keep characters that are out of the encoding!

I am not saying that having a user choice between multiple encodings is a 
bad idea in itself and it is even on my to-do list for KWord's HTML filter, 
the problem is that we have not the programming code for now. So I think that 
using UTF-8 is less problematic. And after KOffice 1.1, we can see...

Having said all this, I would not mind if it is decided that KSpread's HTML 
export filter should continue using the local encoding for KOffice 1.1 and 
that the problem should be solved later. But then the filter should not claim 
to write the file in UTF-8 (see KDE Bug #27882), as it does now (without the 
proposed patch.)

Have a nice day/evening/night!
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