On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 11:02 +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote: > Hello. > > Opening OOo (first Writer then Calc) I entered the Unicode sequence: > > 0928 092e 0938 094d 0924 0947 > > (Devanagari script for namaste = "I bow to you" = greeting) > > but I find that OOo (both Writer and Calc) stores it as the following > sequence > in content.xml - > > e0 a4 a8 e0 a4 ae e0 a4 b8 e0 a5 8d e0 a4 a4 e0 a5 87 > > A friend told me that on Windows the digits are stored in little-endian > model, > and sure enough Windows Notepad saved the following Unicode text file: > > 28 09 2e 09 38 09 4d 09 24 09 47 09 > > But I fail to see any connection between the above text and what OOo stored. > > Kate on Linux stored the text same as OOo: > > e0 a4 a8 e0 a4 ae e0 a4 b8 e0 a5 8d e0 a4 a4 e0 a5 87 > > which is again different from the original Unicode sequence. > > I observe that e0 occupies positions 1, 4, 7 etc, and the length of the Kate > / > OOo text in bytes is exactly one third greater than that of the Notepad text. > Apart from that I fail to identify any pattern relation between the Notepad > text (original Unicode sequence) and the Kate / OOo text. > > Can anyone please elucidate this situation and why OOo stores the Unicode > text > in a different way from the actual Unicode sequence? What is the exact > algorithm OOo / Kate uses to do this change? > > I would like to write to an ODF file directly from an external application, > which is why I ask. > > Thanks. > > P.S: First I sent this before subscribing, so it may have reached the > moderator's desk. I apologise to him/her for the duplicate.
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