Re: problem with accents in rtf files

On 16 Feb 2007, at 16:43, Graham J Lee wrote:

> On 16 Feb 2007, at 16:23, Camille Bourgoin wrote:
>
>> I have some problems with rtf. When I write an rtf document with  
>> accents (like é à ç),
>> TextEdit and Ink read it correctly but non-GNUstep applications  
>> (like OpenOffice or
>> MacOSX TextEdit) don't.
>>
> It looks to me, but I can't be sure this is the problem, but  
> GNUstep encodes extended characters in RTF (\'XY) as ISO Latin- 
> something, whereas Cocoa uses Mac encoding.  That _could_ explain  
> the discrepancies... but as I say I'm unsure.

Dug a little deeper...it _appears_ that the "RTFunichar" rule in core/ 
gui/TextConverters/RTF/rtfGrammer.y [sic] treats the appended  
character as a unichar, irrespective of the character set actually in  
play.  But I'm not a yacc expert....could anyone confirm that?

Thanks,

Graham.