Comment 32 for bug 424132

Someone changed this to non-critical, but it is a looooooooooooooong way from
being either closed or shippable.

On Thursday 15 October 2009 10:37:29 am Christian Schürer-Waldheim wrote:
> I've observed the same problem in the writer part. It saves in an old MS
> word format (although e.g. Word 2003 was selected) which causes the loss
> of e.g. German umlauts or the €-symbol (probably any non ASCII
> character).
>
> ------- Original message -------
>
> > From: Murz <email address hidden>
> > To: <email address hidden>
> > Sent: 15.10.'09, 17:20
> >
> > New problem - OOo Calc saves wrong xls when openoffice.org-kde package is
> > installed! without it - saves correctly. Example:
> > - Install openoffice-kde in Karmic
> > - Open OOo Calc
> > - Create new file, type "тест" (in russian letters) in cell A1.
> > - File - Save as, select "Microsoft Excel 97/2000/XP (.xls)", press Save,
> > Keep format. - Open this xls file in Microsoft Office Excel 2003.
> > We see "????" in cell A1
> >
> > - remove openoffice-kde in Karmic
> > - Open OOo Calc
> > - Create new file, type "тест" (in russian letters) in cell A1.
> > - File - Save as, select "Microsoft Excel 97/2000/XP (.xls)", press Save,
> > Keep format. - Open this xls file in Microsoft Office Excel 2003.
> > We see "тест" in cell A1
> >
> > Attached file test3.xls is created with openoffice-kde is installed,
> > test4.xls - with removed.
> >
> > ** Attachment added: "test3.xls is created with openoffice-kde is
> > installed" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33738101/test3.xls
>

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