[softwarelist] Re: OvPro and RTF
- From: Alan Adams <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 17:14:33 GMT
In message <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:
<snip>
> 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 characters on RISC OS that are affected include smart quotes and the
> various dashes.
> The solution to your problem is to download the .doc file, load it into
> Easi/TechWriter and export plain text from that.
I already do that, using Writer - is there better text export from the
full Easiwriter, or an option to convert smart quotes etc to plain
ones? The Writer route doesn't work.
--
Alan Adams, from Northamptonshire
alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.nckc.org.uk/
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