Hi Eike On 10 Mar 2005 at 20:49, You wrote:
> Hi Tony, > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 19:13:21 -0000, Tony Pursell wrote: > > > In the 2.0 Beta (1.9.79) I cannot open a .csv in anything other than > > Writer. The file was created in the Mail Merge Wizard as a tab > > delimited file. I open it with the File Open icon, I get the file > > open dialog, I select files of type Spreadsheet (or Text (.txt, > > .csv)), > > "Spreadsheet" won't do. IMHO this is a bit misleading in the dialog, > as the Spreadsheet selection will only list files of known spreadsheet > extensions, but does not select any filter. But "Text CSV" should. > > > It gives > > me the ASCII Filter Options Dialog showing it is in Unicode, I click > > OK and it opens in Writer. No way can I get it to open in Calc. > > This sounds like the file contains 0x00 hex null bytes, but does not > start with a Unicode byte order mark (BOM) U+FEFF. As Calc can't > import null bytes while reading an 8bit character encoded stream it > refuses to open the file. If the Mail Merge Wizard really writes > Unicode files it should prepend them with a BOM. > Does this mean that there is a bug here? If there is, can I quote you when I log it as an issue? Tony --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
