Am 2008-07-08 01:50:24, schrieb Laurent Duperval: > Hi, > > Does anyone know how to get OpenOffice on Linux (Ubuntu Feisty) to load > files with accents in them? FWIW, "don't save with accents' is not an > option. I often get files from other people which contain accents and > it's a hassle to open.
Setup the right locale AND MOUNT the filesystem wth a charset option.
> It seems to be somthin specific to OO because on the same machine, I can
> load the accented files with Abiword and GNumeric.
It has nothing to do with OOo. If OOo run in de_DE.UTF-8 for example
and the file was written with iso-8859-1 then OOo can not open the file
and the same for the contrary...
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
Michelle Konzack
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24V Electronic Engineer
Tamay Dogan Network
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