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Non-standard Cocoa RTF Unicode encoding?
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Non-standard Cocoa RTF Unicode encoding?


  • Subject: Non-standard Cocoa RTF Unicode encoding?
  • From: Uli Zappe <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 01:44:07 +0200

Hi,

looking at TextEdit's behavior it seems that the Cocoa text system uses a non-standard encoding for a specific range of (obviously not all!) Unicode characters when *writing* RTF data.

For instance, if you take the Unicode character 0x85dd = (decimal) 34269 and insert it manually into an RTF source code as \u34269 (as the RTF specs suggest), TextEdit will display the correct character. However, if you copy this character from the TextEdit document window, paste it into a new document and save this new document, the character will be encoded as \'e7\'dd in the RTF source, i.e. as a sequence of two hex-defined characters. I couldn't find anything about this kind of behavior in the RTF specs (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-
us/dnrtfspec/html/rtfspec.asp), so it seems non-standard to me.

Does anybody have an explanation for this behavior, and, more important, know a way to translate \'e7\'dd back to \u34269?

Thanks for any insight!

Bye
Uli
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