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Id: 43403
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: RTF-Writer
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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: benoit.merouze [...] ipercom.com
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Severity: Normal
Broken in: 1.11
Fixed in: (no value)

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  Wed Feb 18 13:33:33 2009 benoit.merouze [...] ipercom.com - Ticket created
Subject: Missing escaping of special characters
In Writer.pm it would be great to give the possibility to developers to add more "refinements" in the Escape array when calling the library. Characters like à, é, è, ê, ç are badly escaped, and if I add the following lines in the refinements array, I can have the result I'm looking for: "\xE8" => "\\'8f", # for è "\xE9" => "\\'8e", # for é ... Regards, Benoit Merouze
  Thu Feb 19 13:23:29 2009 benoit.merouze [...] ipercom.com - Correspondence added
I apologize for this ticket, I didn't realize the problem I had was just with MS Word on Mac OS. Special characters are well encoded for Windows platforms. In order to write RTF documents compatible with MS Word for Mac OS, I had to specify the font charset in the prolog like that : $rtf->prolog( 'fonts' => [ \'\fcharset0 Arial' ], ... I love RTF::Writer! Regards, Benoit Merouze
  Thu Feb 19 13:23:36 2009 benoit.merouze [...] ipercom.com - Status changed from 'new' to 'resolved'