non western character disappears in oo writer
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| openoffice.org (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
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I'm using oo writer in Ubuntu 7.10, but the problem occurs also to a friend in oo under Windows (don't know which version).
A oo writer document written in Czech sometimes (don't know under which conditions) is opened, and several Czech characters (finally only a small subset) change to unreadible other chars (e.g. U+00FD, y with accent, changes to U+00A9, the (c) copyright sign). Find and Replace restores the original state, but this is no solution.
I've tried copy and paste-special without formatting into a completely new file. but the next time (or at some later time) the y+accent again disappears.
Font changing doesn't help, neither in recovering ad hoc the original state, nor in saving the characters properly. Originally I had the text written in "Times;Times New Roman", but even when I store it with FreeSans or FreeSerif the problem reoccurs.
It seems to me, that this happens only to documents created under oo. I have lots of documents imported from Word, which behave completely normal.
Who could help me?
Peter Wagner
| Peter Wagner (o-petris) wrote | #1 |
| Chris Cheney (ccheney) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in openoffice.org: | |
| assignee: | nobody → ccheney |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
| Peter Wagner (o-petris) wrote Re: [Bug 172508] Re: non western character disappears in oo writer | #3 |
| Changed in openoffice.org: | |
| assignee: | ccheney → nobody |
| status: | Incomplete → New |
| Changed in openoffice.org: | |
| status: | New → Invalid |
The thing happens really only if
* a file has been founded in oo (CTRL-N) AND
* something has been pasted containing un-western characters
After the first operation, starting a new document, everything is consistent. Documents are stored and loaded without loss of charatres. After pasting something containing only western characters, everything goes all roight. After pasting just a single non-western charcter, THE WHOLE FILE is "infected" by the non western character of the pasted input. This doesn't matter immediately, but only after saving and reloading the whole file. Lots of non-western characters disappear.
The problem occurs independently of formation. If I paste-special without formatting, the same happens. Even if I store the text to be pasted into a plain file, copying from it results in the error.
I have also tried storing a document not founded under oo as a 'ott' template, but the error continues.
For the time being, I have to have some blank document (founded in Word) stored at some place, and any new doc I have to clone from this, because CTRL-N causes data loss.
This happens similarloy to a friend who is running oo under Windows, I've just seen him replacing odd copyright signs by our special characters.
Peter Wagner