[softwarelist] Re: OvPro and RTF
- From: M Harding <riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 12:49:47 +0000 (GMT)
In article <mpro.lhl3bd0485ysg01jc.lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steve Fryatt <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 5 Mar, M Harding wrote in message
> <51af253ef3riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > In article <7427e9ae51.Alan.Adams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> > Alan Adams <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[ . . . ]
> > > I don't think disabling import of sexed quotes will help, as
> > > the character codes are not the correct Latin-1 codes for sexed
> > > quotes.
> >
> > > One day I'll get sufficiently annoyed to write a text
> > > translator, and it will be just as easy to make it reversible.
> >
> > Please do!!
> These already exist. Wombat and ChangeTxt are two that spring to
> mind.
I must explore. Thanks.
> > (1) This also applies to articles I download from a "ParishPump"
> > syndication website: I'm given the option to download as a .doc
> > file or as .txt - but invariably the apostrophes and quotes and
> > dashes in the .txt files are wrong. I've never thought to
> > download the .doc versions. I may raise this issue of standards
> > in the forum, but would prefer to be certain of my facts!
> Neither RISCOS nor Windows use proper ISO 8859-1: the standard does
> not define characters between 128 and 159. Both RISC OS and
> Windows use those undefined characters for adding glyphs that are
> not in the Latin1 charset, but not surprisingly they each use them
> in their own non-standard ways. [ . . . ]
> The solution to your problem is to download the .doc file, load it
> into Easi/TechWriter and export plain text from that.
Thanks for the advice.
Michael Harding
Rev. Preb. M.D. Harding riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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