[Solved] Linux and .rtf

dpetka2001 · l33t Joined: 04 Mar 2005 Posts: 804

hello there...i have some .rtf files in a usb stick that my girlfriend wrote on her pc using Windows notepad/wordpad(i'm not exactly sure which one of the two,though i don't think it should matter)...i am trying to access these files on my Gentoo using kate,gvim,kwrite without success...i mounted the usb stick using "iocharset=utf8" and am able to view correctly the greek characters in the filename with konqueror but when i try to open the file using one of the editors i mentioned eveyrthing looks chinese...can something be done about this?? i followed the gentoo guide about utf8 support and didn't have any problems before...

nyk · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 10:45 am Post subject:

Open it using AbiWord or OpenOffice.

dpetka2001 · l33t Joined: 04 Mar 2005 Posts: 804

thank you...that did the trick...but why couldn't i open it with another editor?? the .rtf files aren't compatible except from openoffice??

Treggats · n00b Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 46 Location: 127.0.0.1/24

I think that is because .rtf uses markup just like Microsoft Word does, the editors you use are meant for plain text (I suppose) and can't deal with markup
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nyk · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 4:51 pm Post subject:

Exactly. Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rtf.