Bug #456
B1.8.1 - EmDash was converted to hyphen by SpecifyEncoding dialog
| Status: | Closed | Start: | 07/22/2010 | |
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| Priority: | Normal | Due date: | 07/23/2010 | |
| Assigned to: | John Wimbish | % Done: | 100% |
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| Category: | Windows | Spent time: | - | |
| Target version: | 1.8x | Estimated time: | 4.00 hours |
Description
Huichol quotations start with two hyphens, e.g.,
--Go thou and do likewise
A user had used a different software package to change double hyphens into an EmDash. On import, the SpecifyEncoding dialog was required because that software did not specify the BOM. The EmDashes displayed correctly in the SpecifyEncoding dialog, but saving saw them become hyphens.
The problem is that in retrieving the data from the RTF control in the SpecifyEncoding dialog, with said control set to "Arial Unicode MS" font, the data was being changed in that retrieval. So by saving the lines as read in, rather than as being stored in that Rtf control, everything works fine.
That is, something undesirable is going on in the .Net control.