das wrote: > On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 18:48 +1000, Russell Butler wrote: >> Sorry, Das, I don't think you can export the list from "Tools-Options- >> Language Settings-Writing Aids" >> >> I don't know what your programming skills are, but >> ConvertCustomDictionary.odt is simply an OpenOffice.org Starbasic >> macro >> as I understand. You may be able be able to modify it fairly readily >> if >> you have the appropriate skills. > > I can send you the dic file, and the original text file that I opened > with the West Europe (ISO-8859-1) character set, and everything is > working fine in OOo. The list it is showing in 'Tools'->'Language' ... > is perfect. But, when I open this dd.dic with OOo or 'strings' or > 'less', it is not working. Another queer thing is that, when I open it > with 'less', after telling me that it is a binary file, it is opening > the file with a lot of ascii and all. But, I can see those accents and > marks very correctly on the screen, but, piping it through 'strings' > take all those things away. > > Oh, concerning the macro thing, I don't have the ability at all to tweak > it. Long time back, some seven plus years, while I worked in MSW and > word-processed with MS-Word, once or twice I used that custom VB packed > with MS-Word for editing macros, but I have forgotten everything, and I > don't think that will work here. > > Thanks for the suggestions. > --- > das
Hi Das I just tried the extraction utility with another version of a somewhat larger source file and it seemed to work. I don't know about accents, I didn't see anything on a quick look. I thought it had worked earlier. I'm currently using OOo 2.2 on a gentoo system. Send me your dd.dic file - off list - and I'll have a look at it tomorrow. I think the problem with the macro may be that it only deals with single byte values, and (I am almost entirely ignorant here, so am completely ready to be told I am wrong) ISO-8859-1 needs to cope with 2-byte values. Regards Russell --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
