Modifying LaTeX plugiin

I am trying to make some modest changes to the LaTeX plugin, per
my recent bug report I have a question on how it and other
plugins work:
The code will take a hex value and translate it into a bit of
LaTeX code, e.g.,
----------------------------------
  case 0xdc:
   printf("\\ldots{}");
   return(1);
----------------------------------

Where is this hex value found and in what encoding? Is it
in ABiword encoding, rtf encoding or MSWord Doc encoding?

If as I suspect this is in some special Abiword encoding, where
can I find an up to date list of these encoded values?

The reason I ask is because as I reported in my bug report some things either
do not translate correctly or do not translate at all. In
particular mandatory hyphens, en dashes, em dashes and ellipses are not
properly translated. At this point saving in rtf form and running
the progam rtf2latex2e yields much better results.

John Culleton

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