unicode rtf support

tkuypers at pandora.be tkuypers at pandora.be
Fri Sep 5 02:11:00 EDT 2003


Nope, it doesn't...
I'll maill you offlist a word-file, the word RTF and the RR rtf, so you will
see what happens...

Regards,

Ton Kuypers

> From: "Tuviah Snyder" <tuviah at runrev.com>
> Reply-To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 19:46:42 -0400
> To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
> Subject: re: unicode rtf support
> 
>> A client supplies RTF-files saved from MS-Word (Mac & PC) with all kind of
>> special characters in it.
>> I'm able to import this RTF in my app, getting all specs and all special
>> chars are maintained in this text.
>> 
>> When editing this text and exporting it as an RTF-file, all special chars
>> are gone when reopening the file in Word.
>> 
>> After looking into the specs of the RTF-format, as mentioned in the RR
>> documentation, I found that there are special control-chars in the RTF
>> format to use Unicode-files, and thus maintaining all special chars.
>> 
>> Is there a way to export Unicode text as RTF, or is there another way to
>> keep all special chars when exporting text-files?
> Yes just get the rtftext of a field and it should export the unicode
> characters as hexidecimal, multibyte characters which should display fine in
> other programs.
> 
> Tuviah Snyder <tuviah at runrev.com> <http://www.runrev.com/>
> Runtime Revolution Limited - Software at the Speed of Thought
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