Thanks, Edward, On 24/04/2011 07:05, Edward Mendelson wrote: > 1. Quite a few WP characters have no unicode equivalents, and there is no way > to fix that.
Yeah, as they say in Swahili: "Maisha ndyvio, alivio" or as we say here in the socialist Europe, "C'est la vie" :) Indeed, we cannot do much in this apart approximate wherever it seems useful. > 2. In TEST.WP (the WP5.1 file), 6,56 through 6,234 didn't convert at all; but > these characters are correctly converted in the WP6.x CHARACT6.DOC. You > evidently have different tables for 5.x and 6+, and I think you can simply > copy the 6,56 through 6,234 mappings from the 6+ table to the 5.x table. Will do that this week. It will need then one other comparison run because there might be subtle differences we would like to catch. > 3. In the converted CHARACT6.DOC, I think it may be possible to add these: > 2,44 seems to be 0361 > 2,45 seems to be 035C > 4,100 seems to be 1D11E > 4,101 seems to be 1D122 Don't know what to do with these ones though. We store the conversion results as UCS2. Let me see what we can do. > 6,83 seems to be 2A38 > 9,83 seems to be 05AA Will correct this too. Do you mind to be marked as author of the contribution when I am committing into git? > I'll have to check the Hebrew tomorrow, but since I don't know any Hebrew, > I'll be guessing. I did similar with the WP5 charset. Comparing pictures :) At the end it might be fun :) > I finally tested the Arabic WP 5.1 files from this page: > http://www.un.org/popin/unpopcom/32ndsess/gass.htm > wpd2odt says they are not WordPerfect files. Apparently libwpd doesn't handle > documents created by Arabic WP5.1 or Hebrew WP5.1. Let me see those ones, I remember I was able to somehow read some of them. Nevertheless, I have already seen on UN web-sites documents that were declared to be WP document when in reality they were Word documents. Cheers F. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fulfilling the Lean Software Promise Lean software platforms are now widely adopted and the benefits have been demonstrated beyond question. Learn why your peers are replacing JEE containers with lightweight application servers - and what you can gain from the move. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfemails _______________________________________________ Libwpd-devel mailing list Libwpd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libwpd-devel
