Re: Excel filters for Writer

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:47 AM, Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 15:56 -0400, Kohei Yoshida wrote:
> > Thanks.  What about this one?
> >
> > http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/filter/source/config/fragments/filters/StarWriter_DOS.xcu
> >
> > Does the same thinking apply to this one also?  I hope yes.
>
> The "import excel .xls into a word processor" filters are just odd in
> the first place. But the StarWriter for DOS filter presumably makes as
> much sense as any of the rest of the binfilter filters. What singles
> StarWriter DOS out as problematic as opposed to say StarWriter 1.0 ?

It's associated with the writer_StarWriter_DOS format type which uses
.txt as the only extension.  So, it gets prioritized when dealing with
a plain text file with.txt extension even though it's a binary format.
 I find that a bit odd.

Kohei