Re: [Gretl-devel] Copy as RTF does not work well under OSX
Dear Allin,
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.
Although I have no idea about how Gretl treats Unicode,
but if iconv is used somewhere,
backslashes might be replaced with Yen signs by iconv.
When I run the following command from Terminal,
echo -n \\ | iconv -f Shift_JIS -t UTF-16 | hexdump
I have
0000000 fe ff 00 a5
0000004
00a5 represents the Yen sign.
Best regards,
Shintaro Nakagawa