Re: Non-standard Cocoa RTF Unicode encoding?
Re: Non-standard Cocoa RTF Unicode encoding?
- Subject: Re: Non-standard Cocoa RTF Unicode encoding?
- From: Aki Inoue <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 18:47:17 -0700
Ondra,
I don't understand what you mean by "Unicode fonts" here.
If it's "fonts designed for Windows and that don't have MacOS cmap
tables," there is perfectly obvious explanation.
Since those fonts designed for Windows usually don't have MacOS cmap
table, they appear to ATS (and, hence, to Cocoa) that they are a
MacRoman-encoded font. If you have characters that cannot be converted
into MacRoman, the RTF writer generates the RTF Unicode directives
(\uXXXX format). The format can be recognized by any MS Unicode-ready
platforms.
On the other hand, fonts designed for Mac have the correct cmap
entries. So, we can use the MacOS encoding I described earlier.
This is necessary to have maximum compatibility on our own platform.
MS Office Mac, AppleWorks, Adobe products all depend on the legacy
encoding, not the Unicode directives.
The problem with moving these files to Windows is that the MacOS script
encoding converters other than MacRoman are not installed by default.
I haven't tried but it might help to install the converters on your
friend's machine. With Win 2000pro or XP, you can install various
MacOS encoding converters from the localization set up.
Aki
On 2002.7.8, at 05:33 AM, Ondra Cada wrote:
On Monday, July 8, 2002, at 05:51 , Aki Inoue wrote:
Both Cocoa and MS RTF reader/writer use this convention
As for the latter, I don't think so. I don't use (or even have) M$
office myself, but friends of mine do; they say that so as my Mac OS X
made RTFs are readable there, I have to use Unicode fonts: with
non-Unicode ones, they see improper foreign characters in their Words.
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Ondra Cada
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