"What version of LC are you using for this?"
I was using 7.1.4.
I prepared the document to import in AbiWord ("Shabby Word"),
and a second time in LibreOffice 5.
Having said that: my last Stable release of my Devawriter Pro was
authored with 4.5
and it imported RTF files that "Behaved themselves" completely.
Richmond.
On 07/08/2016 11:42 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 7/8/2016 10:31 AM, Richmond wrote:
So, I imported an RTF file into a list field and tired to look at
char 3,
but I have a feeling that the RTF was piling in as double-byte stuff
as it didn't work at all.
When I copy-pasted the stuff out of the original RTF file intil a
text file
and imported that (as Text rather than RTFtext) everything worked.
Would be grateful if someone "in the know" could either confirm
or put me right on this one.
What version of LC are you using for this? If it's before version 7
then you probably need to play with uniEncode/decode from or to
UTF16/UTF8. (I don't remember the order of the transformations, you'd
know better than I. My brain erased everything I used to know about it
as soon as the ease of LC 7 appeared.)
If it's LC 7 or higher then all text files are automatically converted
to UTF16 when you import them, but an RTF file probably needs to go
through textEncode before putting it into the field. It helps to know
what unicode the original is saved as, but when in doubt, it's usually
UTF8.
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