Hello,

Recently I was asked to help someone convert hundreds of WPMac files that 
include Japanese Kanji, files that were created on old Macs that had the 
Japanese Language Kits installed.

It seems - I could be wrong - that libwpd doesn't convert the characters in 
those files. The method I found for converting them was a bit roundabout:

Use a PowerPC Mac that runs OS 10.4 and "Classic" with the Japanese Language 
Kit installed. Open the WPMac files in WPMac in Classic. Copy the contents of 
the file to the clipboard. Paste the contents of the file from the Clipboard 
into OS X's TextEdit or any other unicode-aware Mac application. Save the 
resulting file as an RTF or DOC file. The resulting file opens correctly in 
LibreOffice, Pages, Word, etc.

This method obviously requires obsolete hardware and software. I would guess 
that it would require an enormous amount of effort to support double-byte CJK 
and other WorldScript-based scripts in libwpd, and that the potential need for 
it is far too small to justify the effort. But is this something that might 
someday be possible in the future?

Edward Mendelson
Contributing Editor
PC Magazine


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