Hi Jay, Am attaching the offending .csv. I am surprised with the result. I've since tried to read other OS files, .csv or .asc. They are all producing 'chinese'. Thanks for trying, JJ
On 24 October 2013 12:59, Jay Lozier [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 02:04 -0700, JimJoyce wrote: > > I'm trying to use calc to format some Ordnance Survey data. > > It consists of 201 rows of 201 values. > > The values are all short ascii numeric, such as 123.4 > > > > It seems to think the data is a long string of what looks (to me) like > > chinese characters. > > > > I downloaded an up-to-date copy of Calc, with the same result. > > Jim, > > Did you imported the data from a csv or txt file? If so, I have > occasionally had to change the character set in the import wizard until > I saw the correct characters. Sometimes the character encoding is > incorrectly determined. > > -- > Jay Lozier > [hidden email] <http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4079560&i=0> > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [hidden > email]<http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4079560&i=1> > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > > ------------------------------ > If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion > below: > > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Open-fails-looks-like-chinese-tp4079539p4079560.html > To unsubscribe from Open fails, looks like chinese, click > here<http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=unsubscribe_by_code&node=4079539&code=amltQGppbWpveWNlLmNvLnVrfDQwNzk1Mzl8LTkzODA3MDQwOA==> > . > NAML<http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=macro_viewer&id=instant_html%21nabble%3Aemail.naml&base=nabble.naml.namespaces.BasicNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NabbleNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NodeNamespace&breadcrumbs=notify_subscribers%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-instant_emails%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-send_instant_email%21nabble%3Aemail.naml> > -- JimJoyce T: 0(044) 1280 813 899 E: [email protected] NZ50.csv (345K) <http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/attachment/4079577/0/NZ50.csv> -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Open-fails-looks-like-chinese-tp4079539p4079577.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
