Re: Patch: Import, Export, Clipboard


Subject: Re: Patch: Import, Export, Clipboard
From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Mon Jun 18 2001 - 08:08:56 CDT


According to Andrew Dunbar <hippietrail@yahoo.com>:
> I've done more work on Text import and export, and on clipboard support.

Really great. I take this one.
I need to check and review first as always. it shouldn't be too long.

> * Unicode clipboard on Windows (NT) no matter what your locale is.
> * Text import and export modules simplified, unified, and abstracted
> more.
> * You can now derive from them in your own import/export modules.
> * Encodings handled almost transparently.
> * CRLF trickery handled transparently.
> * Correct paragraph delimeters (no extra linefeed at end of file).
> * No need to duplicate code to import from file and from clipboard.
> * An example derived import and exporter for ISCII Devanagari text
> files is provided.

What is ISCII ?

Hub



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