Re: [Gretl-devel] Copy as RTF does not work well under OSX
On Tue, 15 Apr 2014, Shintaro Nakagawa wrote:
I regret that I am sending many emails.
No problem. Thank you for persevering with this!
However, I found that when I copy a model table as RTF and replace
yen
signs, ¥, in the paste board with back slashes by running the following
command on Terminal
pbpaste | sed 's/\¥/\\/g' | pbcopy
then I can paste a model table as RTF into Word.
I hope that it helps you.
Yes, it should help. When I saw the Yen signs in your first posting I
thought they were the result of some strange email-driven corruption. But
if they were actually present in the material passed by gretl to the Mac
paste board then it's not surprising that pasting into Word didn't work.
Next question: where did the Yen signs come from? I'll work on that
problem. Getting the text encoding "right" for RTF for a range of locales
is non-trivial, since the RTF "standard" is an unprincipled mash-up of
so-called "ansi" and hex-coded UTF-16.
It would be too easy, of course, for Microsoft to use UTF-8 like everyone
else!
Allin Cottrell