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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: PATCH: kspread html export
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-07-29 23:25:51
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On Monday 30 July 2001 02:17, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> 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!

Obviously if someone mixes encodings he should select UTF8.
I was talking about the (much more common) case where there's a single encoding
in the document. In that case you can simply create a QTextCodec, and use it
to convert the text. No problem there.

-- 
David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~david/, http://www.konqueror.org/
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