Re: SaveAs forgetting filetype again ):

From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed May 29 2002 - 23:42:03 EDT

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    I've just reopened Bug bug 2573 due to this problem.
    I hope somebody can at least investigate it before
    the next release.

    Andrew.

     --- Andrew Dunbar <hippietrail@yahoo.com> wrote: > I
    know this has been worked on recentlyish so I'm
    > writing here instead of Mozilla.
    >
    > Open a file as "Encoded Text", go to "Save As" and
    > AbiWord's going to try to save it as "Plain Text"!
    > This means that your fancy encoded file is going to
    > get saved with loads of question marks because it
    > won't be in the encoding you opened it with at all!
    > This just happened to me.
    >
    > It's much worse if you just do "Save" because then
    > your file gets destroyed without you ever having a
    > clue.
    >
    > There is code to keep the "Open" filetype and "Save
    > As"
    > filetype synchronized and I recall the being changed
    > in the past month or so. Can somebody please look
    > into it?
    >
    > Andrew Dunbar.
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