From: Francis James Franklin (f.j.franklin_at_sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Mar 12 2004 - 04:02:39 EST
On 11 Mar 2004, at 21:47, Mark Richardson wrote:
> Now I have a probably very simple question: Why do I get an "error
> importing file" notice when opening text files that have ascii
> characters inserted into the document from an ascii table? The
> document otherwise opens flawlessly, but when I insert, say, a
> "paragraph" symbol when I'm creating the file using a basic text
> editor, the file cannot later be opened by AbiWord. Are not all ascii
> characters equally readable? Sorry for the bonehead question.
The trouble is that ASCII is a very limited character set and all the
special characters don't officially belong to ASCII. Even worse, there
are many different conventions for defining the various symbols people
want to add.
AbiWord has two ways to import text. If you haven't already, try
selecting "Encoded Text" from the filetypes list in the File->Open
dialog box; you will need to select also a codepage, which I'm guessing
will be "Western European, Windows Code Page 1252" for you.
Hopefully, Frank
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