My office uses WordPerfect x4. When staff uses that program to
convert a file to Wp 5.1 for DOS so I can read it on the mpower bt 32
running ks 8 build 20, all quotation marks and apostrophes are lost.
Other characters may also be lost; but if I can solve the quotation
marks and apostrophes, the solution may cure any other stripping as well.
I started with this test file:
"this is a quote" this file's apostrophe is intact.
When I use f3 in WP x4 to convert the file to Wp 5.1 for DOS and save
that file to a sd card in the computer, then find that file on the sd
card and use the computer to click on it, it comes up in Wp x4 with
the quotation marks and apostrophe in place. That is, the conversion
done by Wp appears to leave appropriate characters in the file to
represent the opening and closing quotation marks and apostrophe; and
those characters are preserved when working with the file on the computer.
But if I put that sd card in the bn and open the .wp file, whether I
choose to translate it or not the quotes and apostrophe are missing.
I asked Wp x4 to convert the same test file to ASCII DOS text. When
I opened that text file on the bn, the quotation marks and apostrophe
had been preserved and were in the file.
Based on these tests I think that:
1. Wp x4 is not stripping the quotation and apostrophe
characters. If it's changing them at all (for example, so that the
ASCII DOS text file won't contain characters with ASCII values above
127), it's replacing them with something suitable to the conversion
in question;
2. Something in the bn's reading of Wp 5.1 files is either stripping
high-bit characters or characters with hex or unicode values beyond a
certain range;
3. The bn's handling of Wp 5.1 files is a bit black-box: that is, it
doesn't offer the choices about extended characters which are offered
during translation of other types of files to braille Grade 2.
Any thoughts about other tests to run, or ways to use the bn's
unicode abilities to preserve, examine or convert the Wp 5.1 files in
a way which allows me to review all the punctuation and other
information in Wp 5.1 files , even when that information may have
started out as some ascii value above 127 would be welcome.
Window-Eyes reports the hex value of the opening quotation mark as
201A and closing quotation mark as 201D. The unicode tables in the
bn tell me the left open double quote is 8020 and the right is 8021.
Steve
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