Re: Bug 1614


Subject: Re: Bug 1614
From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Jun 22 2001 - 20:26:47 CDT


Dom Lachowicz wrote:
>
> Quoting Andrew Dunbar <hippietrail@yahoo.com>:
>
> > I just looked at this bug regarding german characters in mac word
> > documents. It looks to me like wv library does not support mac
> > encodings which I expect the problem to be. Does anybody know if
> > where in the wv code? My best guess is in wvnLocaleToLIDConverter()
> > where nLocale has the value of 0x4d which is not handled.
> >
>
> Hey,
>
> in wv/text.c there are some functions that probably aren't handling the 0x4d
> value properly. My first guess is wvLidToCodePageConverter isn't handling the
> lid properly. wvnLocaleToLidConverter probably isn't to blame here, but you're
> more than welcome to try it.

Can you explain what a Lid is. I'm assuming they're language IDs
defined somewhere by Microsoft. Or are they internal to wv?
Is there any part of a Word document that tells us it's a mac document
and if so does wv look at this?

Still looking...

Andrew.

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