Hi das, das wrote:
... > 1. It was a zipped text file from Project Gutenberg that contained quite > a lot of accents, diacritical marks. When I wanted to open it with OOo, > it wanted to know what encoding to use. The default was UTF-8, but this > encoding was ruining the file: everything getting mangled and mixed up. > > 2. Though, according to PGDP standard, it was Latin 1 encoding, when I > tried to open it with the Windows Latin 1 encoding, it again got a mixed > up thing. > > 3. Finally the encoding that worked was West Europe (ISO-8859-1). With > this it opened nicely. And I did my work on it, editing and all. > > 4. Now, when I wanted to get the word-list thus generated within the > custom dictionary dd.dic into a text file, I was not being able to do > that. Russell Butler suggested one macro-loaded ODT (earlier in this > thread). I tried that. But that did not work. The list it was generating > was the mixed up thing. > > 5. But, all this time when I open the word-list contained within the > custom dictionary from the Tools-Options-Language-Writing-Aid-Edit, it > was showing them all quite well. And if I copied and pasted that from > the file into gedit or Evolution, that was correct too. But If I open > the dd.dic with OOo and give it the encoding WE ISO-8859-1, it was > getting mixed up. No other encoding worked too. Including UTF-8. > > 6. I then sent the file, the original text file, its ODT counter part, > and the dd.dic to Butler. He created this thing for me in a .txt file > and this again worked fine. And now, I see, when I open the ODT the > Tools-Option-Language way, the custom dictionary shows mixed up > characters. Though, when I paste them into 'gedit' or 'Evolution' they > show correct. > > 7. All this is quite a mystery to me. > > Shall I send the files to you. The text file in the first place may be > the culprit. Someone else in PGDP who opened it with her Mac, got the > problem, like 'château' getting displayed as 'ch,teau', exactly the way > I was getting it in the mixed up file. Yes, if you think there is still something wrong please send those files to me. The best/usual way to do this would be to submit an issue for this. You should add the complete problem description and attach your files to it. The you may assign it directly to me. My shortcut for OOo issues is "tl". (Please don't forget to add the files as binary attachments...) Regards, Thomas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
