Re: rtf question

Andreas Prilop wrote:
On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, John wrote:

{\u201}tat
Apparently it doesn't like the {\u201} somehow.

No curly brackets around \u201 .

When I code it in line simply as \u201tat , TextEdit eats the
character after the special character, even if I put a blank
after the unicode (as \u201 tat).

The next character is the replacement character for programs
that don't understand Unicode. You could write \u201Etat ,
or simply \u201_tat if you are lazy and know that all your
programs understand \u .

Once again: Read the RTF specification(s).
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=RTF+specification


I missed a tree while looking at the forest. I didn't realize
that the next character was required and is what is printed if
unicode isn't understood. A good idea really.

It works in TextEdit, NeoOffice, and OpenOffice if I use
{\u201E}tat or \u201Etat . Indeed it now makes sense that
the curly brackets appeared unbalanced in Neo/OpenOffice
because it "ate" the rightmost one, unbalancing them. Somehow,
TextEdit recovers.

Thank you again!
.

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