Hi Jeongkyu, On 11/19/08 17:38, Jeongkyu Kim wrote:
A Korean user posted a complaint that he lost his work after saving the document into MS Word format. Later, it was found that he chose MS Word 6.0 format which does not support unicode to save the document. The result was critical. When he opened the document again, all Korean characters turned into question mark. I understand the warning message for non-native filter could be one way to prevent this kind of situation. However, the issue should be addressed in better way because it is possible to cause data loss. Before going to issuezilla, I'd like to discuss here on what is the best way to handle the issue. A suggestion came up to me so far is to have different filter list for each language version. For instance, MS Word 6.0 and 95 format filters are almost useless and even dangerous for Korean users (unless we implement application-level character set handling). Considering the fact, I believe it is safe to hide those filters in Korean version. However, I am not sure how practical the suggestion is. How do you think?
although I understand your concern, I don't think that disabling certain filters in certain versions is the way to go. From my point of view the current issued warning "This document may contain formatting that cannot be saved in format blabla" should be sufficient. Disabling certain Word filters in the Korean version does not protect the user from loosing text frames when choosing a plain text export filter. So one way to approach this issue would be to analyze the document content and give a estimation of what is possible lost on exporting the document instead of just warning "This document *may* contain formatting...". But this needs quite some coding and I'm not sure if this is worth the effort.
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