Re: ANN: GUI-0.11.0

[Wolfgang Lux]

Charles Philip Chan wrote:

> On 2006-08-30 05:06:17 -0400 Andreas Höschler  
> <ahoesch@smartsoft.de> wrote:
>
> > If I open it on GNustep with TextEdit.app the german letters are  
> > gone. If I
> > create a file under GNUstep and open it on a Mac (TextEdit.app),  
> > the german
> > characters are replaced with garbage!?
>
> After looking at the attached rtf and doing some research, it looks  
> like the encoding is "Mac OS Roman" (cpg1000):
>
>         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_10000
>
> and not unicode.

Right. And since Windows copepage 1252 is close to ISO 8859-1 (and  
thus the
first 256 characters of Unicode, the following simple patch will make  
GNUstep
write RTF files that -- at least as far as ISO 8859-1 characters are
concerned -- are read correctly by OS X's TextEdit.app.

--- TextConverters/RTF/RTFProducer.m.orig	2006-08-30  
17:59:51.000000000 +0200
+++ TextConverters/RTF/RTFProducer.m    2006-08-30 18:00:29.000000000 +0200
@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@
   // grok paragraph spacing \saN. Should be no problem with other  
RTF parsers
   // as this command will be ignored. So this is for compatibility  
with OS X.
   result = (NSMutableString *)[NSMutableString stringWithString:
-      @"{\\rtf1\\ansi\\ansicpg10000\\cocoartf102"];
+      @"{\\rtf1\\ansi\\ansicpg1252\\cocoartf102"];

   [result appendString: [self fontTable]];
   [result appendString: [self colorTable]];

The patch on the input side is more complicated, as it requires  
reading the
code page from the RTF file (which according to my cursory look is  
currently
ignored in the RTF parser) and setting up an appropriate iconv  
translation in
RTFConsumer.m (which is currently both beyond my time and iconv  
expertise).

Wolfgang