On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Jungshik Shin wrote:
> I guess it's not such a good idea to put up documents for the public
> review in a proprietary format like MS-Word (especially if it's for
> linux-utf8) although there are a few MS-Word file viewer for Linux and
> other Unix(-like OS) and Star Office can read MS-Word as well.
Antiword is available from
http://www.winfield.demon.nl/
and provides significantly better DOC -> plaintext conversion
than any Micorsoft product. I would say, reading Word files
is excellently supported on all POSIX platforms today thanks to
antiword.
The only thing missing to Antiword for perfect happyness is
the ability to produce locale-dependent UTF-8 output to
preserve all the curly quotes.
Markus
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Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels
Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
