Bits of Word files missing
Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 9:46 am
Comparing two Word 2000 documents, where one contains an elongated hyphen, results in all the text to the left of the hyphen being omitted from the line.
I have traced the bug to the plug-in catdoc.exe
Running catdoc.exe from the command line on this Word document gives an output which omits all characters on the offending line up to and including the hyphen.
When I open the Word document in a hex file viewer, the hyphen appears to be hex 96, not the usual 2D.
I don't know how the non-standard hyphen got into the document, though.
I have traced the bug to the plug-in catdoc.exe
Running catdoc.exe from the command line on this Word document gives an output which omits all characters on the offending line up to and including the hyphen.
When I open the Word document in a hex file viewer, the hyphen appears to be hex 96, not the usual 2D.
I don't know how the non-standard hyphen got into the document, though.