make use of unicode files exported from MS Excel 2003
Bug #553880 reported by
Zhang Weiwu
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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addressbook |
Fix Committed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
MS Excel 2003 can export utf16le text files from spreadsheets, so called "Unicode Text". This is the only usable format to exchange data to addressbook because:
1) it is unicode thus not need to guess local local and make mistakes of it;
2) it stores line-break within cell as \n while line-break between cells as \r. Thus can be processed easily by setting record separator to "\r";
Changed in addressbook: | |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
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This is done but not documented yet.
But a side-effect is discovered, which is documented in news:2Mu1o. 11076$<email address hidden>
In the end if we tolerate MS Excel 2003 Unicode Text format we will scarify compatibility with big-endian systems.