From: Edward M. <em...@co...> - 2011-04-24 05:47:58
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On 24 Apr 2011, at 1:17 AM, Fridrich Strba wrote: > Thanks, Edward, > > On 24/04/2011 07:05, Edward Mendelson wrote: >> 1. Quite a few WP characters have no unicode equivalents, and there is no way to fix that. > > Yeah, as they say in Swahili: "Maisha ndyvio, alivio" or as we say here > in the socialist Europe, "C'est la vie" :) Indeed, we cannot do much in > this apart approximate wherever it seems useful. > >> 2. In TEST.WP (the WP5.1 file), 6,56 through 6,234 didn't convert at all; but these characters are correctly converted in the WP6.x CHARACT6.DOC. You evidently have different tables for 5.x and 6+, and I think you can simply copy the 6,56 through 6,234 mappings from the 6+ table to the 5.x table. > > Will do that this week. It will need then one other comparison run > because there might be subtle differences we would like to catch. > >> 3. In the converted CHARACT6.DOC, I think it may be possible to add these: >> 2,44 seems to be 0361 >> 2,45 seems to be 035C >> 4,100 seems to be 1D11E >> 4,101 seems to be 1D122 > > Don't know what to do with these ones though. We store the conversion > results as UCS2. Let me see what we can do. > >> 6,83 seems to be 2A38 >> 9,83 seems to be 05AA > > Will correct this too. Do you mind to be marked as author of the > contribution when I am committing into git? > >> I'll have to check the Hebrew tomorrow, but since I don't know any Hebrew, I'll be guessing. > > I did similar with the WP5 charset. Comparing pictures :) At the end it > might be fun :) > >> I finally tested the Arabic WP 5.1 files from this page: >> http://www.un.org/popin/unpopcom/32ndsess/gass.htm >> wpd2odt says they are not WordPerfect files. Apparently libwpd doesn't handle documents created by Arabic WP5.1 or Hebrew WP5.1. > > Let me see those ones, I remember I was able to somehow read some of > them. Nevertheless, I have already seen on UN web-sites documents that > were declared to be WP document when in reality they were Word documents. > > Cheers > Glad to help, and I would be very proud to be listed as author of the contribution - though I didn't do much, and I assume you'll check my reports! The Arabic files at that UN site really and truly are WP documents - they're the ones I use to test my printer drivers and fonts for Arabic WP. I know that someone was writing a book a few years ago in Arabic WP, but I haven't heard from him for a while. And now for some sleep.... Edward Mendelson Contributing Editor PC Magazine |