Re: MS Word to Abiword hyperlink conversion issues

From: <sum1abi_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed Nov 26 2008 - 18:29:17 CET

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 8:04 AM, El Shami, Hesham
<HeSham.ElShami@cibc.ca> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I scanned the mailing list archives for this problem and have not found it (maybe it's already been raised, but I could not find it).
>
> I'm experiencing issues with hyperlinks in Ms Word when they are either rendered in html using Abiword or when I import the document into Abiword and view in HTML.
>
> The command I use is: C:\abiword\AbiWord\bin\AbiWord.exe C:\PHP\TEMP\00000000-a714-8652.DOC --to=html --to-name=C:/TSC/files/KB040202/40202.HTML
>
> Abiword 2.6.4
> Running on Windows Server 2003.
> Documents being converted to HTML are in MS Word 2003.
>
>
> I also added a bug report: http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11813
>
> I'll give you two examples:
>
> Case 1: URL
> MS Word:
> http://PRTCHQ828
>
> When I convert to HTML using, this hyperlink shows as:
>
> http://PRTCHQ828
>
> What I notice is the %3a which stands for :

This escaping is actually done on purpose to comply with RFC 1738. See
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt and
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/2005/Apr/0296.html.
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Received on Wed Nov 26 18:29:33 2008

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