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Book Reader for Android
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The Librera Reader cannot open plain text documents saved with the .doc extension #1193

Closed Korb closed 7 months ago

Korb commented 8 months ago

In the 80s and 90s, many literary publications were distributed as plain text with width formatting and a .doc file extension. A variety of encodings were used, but definitely not Unicode. I still have large collections of such books from the time of Fidonet, some of which I only got to now, in my old age. However, I discovered that when I try to open such files, the Librera Reader seems to think that it is Microsoft Word Binary File Format and displays a blank document. Changing the encoding to UTF-8 or UTF-8 with BOM did not change anything. Yes, I can change the extensions of such files to .txt and read them. But to do this I would have to go through tens of thousands of documents, manually determining whether they are “true” .docs or not.

I suggest adding a check for the .doc file format to the Librera Reader, and opening it in any case, both if it is a MS Word 97-2003 document, and if it is plain text in any encoding with a .doc extension.

ℹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_(computing)#Other_file_formats

foobnix commented 7 months ago

fixed, please check in beta.librera.mobi build Please send some .doc samples if you find any problems

Korb commented 7 months ago

The version of Librera Pro-8.9.60-arm64.apk works as it should. Thank you!

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