Frank Meies wrote: > 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.
Frank, one of two us be a mind reader. :-) Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
