From: Alan G Isaac (aisaac@american.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 14 2003 - 13:48:13 EDT
How does one save as ASCII text in AbiWord?
The SaveAs/Text option uses non-ASCII characters. It wd be
useful to give it a more detailed label (e.g., in
parentheses the ISO identifier, which I'm guessing is
8859-1) so that anyone who cares can know what they are
getting. On the plus side, it is clever in its conversion
of non-Latin1 characters. (So, *is* this a Latin1 export?)
I saw the ISCII text option. I was not sure if this was
really ASCII support disguised by some kind of anti-American
joke or it is really for Indian language support or
something else that I missed altogether. In either case, it
is not clever in exporting non-ASCII characters, simply
substituting a '?' for them rather than following standard
conventions. (E.g., for “ or — etc.)
A reasonably 'clever' ASCII export wd be nice.
Thank you,
Alan Isaac
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