On Tuesday, Jan 28, 2003, at 17:09 Europe/London, Hussein Shafie wrote:

> Jeremy Quinn wrote:
>>
>> We are finding a problem copy-pasting from an Application like BBEdit
>> or Word into XXE on MacOSX.
>>
>> We open a text file containing accented characters, encoded as UTF-8 
>> in
>> BBEdit.
>>
>>         eg. "Ga?tan de Cl?rambault"
>>
>> Copy this text to the clipboard, switch to XXE and paste it into a
>> template (saved as UTF-8), you get this:
>>
>>         "Ga??tan de Cl??rambault"
>>
>> Copy this back out again into BBEdit and it gets the correct string
>> (!?!)
>>
>> Pasting the original text from BBEdit into other Java Applications 
>> like
>> JEdit, results in the correct text appearing. Copying accented text
>> from JEdit into XXE also results in the munging of the characters.
>>
>> Anyone know of any workarounds?
>> We have XXE set to use UTF-8 by default.
>
> I don't understand. I have looked at the source code of jedit 4.1 pre2
> and this editor doesn't do anything different from XXE.

Strange.

> These problems will be fixed as soon as XXE will be ported to MacOSX
> 10.2/``Apple Java'' 1.4.1. This should'nt be long now.

Cool

Many thanks for investigating this.

regards Jeremy

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