Polish characters

From: January Weiner 3 (jweiner1@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de)
Date: Wed Apr 24 2002 - 11:19:34 EDT

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    Hm, in addition to what I have tried -- some more news: it seems that the
    export to RTF works if and only if you use ttf fonts like "Arial CE" (but
    not the original Abiword fonts) with the exception for `zabovedot'.
    `zabovedot' ('¿') is stored in .abw XML files as '¿'; all the other
    characters are stored just normally. In the RTF file, the iso-latin-2 \'bf
    character becomes the unicode \uc0\u0 sequence. These characters are then
    not correctly displayed by Microsoft Word. The same happens in an apparent
    random way with other characters: sacute ('¶'), aogonek ('±') etc. when
    doing cut & paste from a terminal. If you substitute the characters *in
    the abiword XML file*, e.g. cat file1.abw | perl -p -e 's/¿/¿/g;' >
    file2.abw

    ...then the characters will stay same during following operations, and will
    get correctly imported to Microsoft Word.

    If you use original Abiword fonts, then in Microsoft Word in place of
    polish national characters you'll get their iso-latin-1 counterparts.

    This all is infuriating, frustrating and totally obscure to me.

    j.

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    tylko wierzyc w twojego malysza! [ Anonim ]

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