Re: problem with accents in rtf files

[Nicolas Roard]

On 2/16/07, Graham J Lee <leeg@thaesofereode.info> wrote:
> On 16 Feb 2007, at 16:43, Graham J Lee wrote:
>
> > On 16 Feb 2007, at 16:23, Camille Bourgoin wrote:
> >
> >> I have some problems with rtf. When I write an rtf document with
> >> accents (like é à ç),
> >> TextEdit and Ink read it correctly but non-GNUstep applications
> >> (like OpenOffice or
> >> MacOSX TextEdit) don't.
> >>
> > It looks to me, but I can't be sure this is the problem, but
> > GNUstep encodes extended characters in RTF (\'XY) as ISO Latin-
> > something, whereas Cocoa uses Mac encoding.  That _could_ explain
> > the discrepancies... but as I say I'm unsure.
>
> Dug a little deeper...it _appears_ that the "RTFunichar" rule in core/
> gui/TextConverters/RTF/rtfGrammer.y [sic] treats the appended
> character as a unichar, irrespective of the character set actually in
> play.  But I'm not a yacc expert....could anyone confirm that?

I think I'm the last one to have worked on the RTF parser, and yes, as
far as I remember the parser does not check the character set
currently, it assumes unicode.. Sot it needs to check the codepage (eg
\mac\ansicpg10000\)

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Nicolas Roard
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