Re: [Libwpd-devel] WPMac files with WorldScript fonts?

[Edward M. <em...@co...>]

On 23 Apr 2011, at 10:38 AM, Fridrich Strba wrote:

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> Smokey
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> I wrote a quick generator and generated a wp document with all charsets
> from 1 to 14. Would be nice to open it in a mac that is on a system
> where all the WorldScript goodies are installed, so that we can see how
> the missing mac characters will be regenerated by formater. Not sure
> though whether it leads somewhere.
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One thing to keep in mind: As a result of what I wrote in my previous message, it's likely that a character-map document created in 6.x format will produce different results from one created in 5.x format. The WPMac importer presumably knows to interpret the numbers in different ways, depending on whether the 5.1 or 6.x mappings were used to create the file.

Also potentially useful: The character map document that shipped with 6.x for DOS is here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/271144/CHARACT6.DOC

It includes all 14 sets.

I'll find and post the CHARMAP.TST that shipped with 5.1 Hebrew and Arabic later on.

Smokey, do you have a 10.4/Classic Mac set up with Hebrew/Arabic installed? If not, I can try to set one up later this weekend or next week. I never installed Hebrew or Arabic on a Mac because WPMac never supported right-to-left text entry.

Edward