Re: Re[4]: saving as text

From: Julien Olivier (julo@altern.org)
Date: Fri Oct 17 2003 - 02:37:14 EDT

  • Next message: Eric Zen: "Re: Re[4]: saving as text"

    On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 18:12, ericzen wrote:
    > On 2003.10.16 07:49 Dom Lachowicz wrote:
    > >
    > > I'm still not entirely clear why you can't just save
    > > as UTF8 text, though.
    >
    > Actually, I think it makes sense; how many grandmothers know what "save as UTF8" means?
    >
    > I'd almost think there would be something more MS-like, like:
    > Plain text (ascii)
    > Indic text (iscii)
    > Enriched text (UTF8)
    >

    For me, Enriched text should mean RTF...
    I think the best way to handle it is to define the encoding in the
    preferences (defaulting to UTF8) and to have a "plain text" save option
    using this encoding.

    > I'll RFE that.
    >
    > -Eric
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