Hello, part of my work is to write some plain text files, that will later be put to several uses by different applications. Hence the plain text. And because I'm lazy, I like to copy'n'paste them off the WWW...
Now, for the copy&paste part to work, I have to set the coding system of my editor to utf-8. If they're anything else, both gedit and emacs will garble german umlauts in the text. Utf-8 is fine for me -- seemingly it is the preferred coding system for German. However, OpenOffice seemingly only expects Latin-1 when opening text files -- anything else (including utf-8) will suffer. In times long past, OOo would have asked me wich coding system to try for a given file, but since some time (1) it will just assume iso-8859-1 and, again, make a mess of my utf-8 files. (1) The localization and coding system stuff has been nagging for quite some time. I've messed around a lot with it, and though most things now work better than before, OOo no longer asks for coding systems but uses iso-8859-1 no matter what the file actually is. I'd like to revert this if I only knew how... and as long as I won't lose the current language support I _do_ have. So, I'm a bit at a loss here and don't know wich way to turn. cu, Schnobs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
