Subject: Re: Patch: Import, Export, Clipboard
From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Jun 18 2001 - 08:16:46 CDT
Hubert Figuiere wrote:
>
> 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 ?
It's the Indian equivalent of ASCII. It supprts 10 (I think) major
Indian languages. No operating systems use it as a native encoding
so no iconv support, but I'm told all major Indian editing software
use it as an interchange format. MS Word also supports it.
This is a good case for a plugin that shouldn't be installed by
default. Can the plugin manager handle optional plugins yet?
Andrew.
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