tOn 20 Jun 2001, Joaqu�n Cuenca Abela wrote:
> On 20 Jun 2001 12:33:30 +0500, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> >
> > On 18 Jun 2001, JoaquМn Cuenca Abela wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > In the HOWTO you asked what "RTF attic" is for - the answer is - it's for
> > exporting RTF for StarOffice 5.x and other broken software (if you export text
> > to plain rtf, import it in some app and see every character duplicated - it's
> > broken and "RTF attic" should be used for exporting data for that app).
>
> thank you for the explanation!
> btw, if RTF attic works for everybody and RTF only for "correct" apps,
> why don't just use RTF attic always?
RTF attic exports characters in single byte encoding, RTF plain exports in
unicode and provides single-byte fallback.
It's easier for app writers to support unicode-only in RTF files, so when
exporting data in plan RTF, the probability that it would be read correctly by
*modern* tool (e.g. OpenOffice - not StarOffice) is much higher than in attic
RTF.
So both RTF formats are necessary.
Best regards,
-Vlad
