Issue 15050 - Import russian characters from StarOffice 5.2
Summary: Import russian characters from StarOffice 5.2
Status: CLOSED NOT_AN_OOO_ISSUE
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1 Beta2
Hardware: PC All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: eric.savary
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2003-05-29 12:00 UTC by Unknown
Modified: 2013-09-21 10:32 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
Latest Confirmation in: ---
Developer Difficulty: ---

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Example sdw file (29.50 KB, application/x-swriter)
2003-05-30 19:14 UTC, Unknown 		no flags Details
Snapshot Win95 (22.83 KB, image/png)
2003-06-03 13:32 UTC, Unknown 		no flags Details
Snapshot Win98 (31.83 KB, image/png)
2003-06-03 13:34 UTC, Unknown 		no flags Details
Snapshot WinNT (24.45 KB, image/png)
2003-06-03 13:35 UTC, Unknown 		no flags Details
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Description Unknown 2003-05-29 12:00:25 UTC 
If I open any sdw document writen
in StarOffice 5.2 on Win95 in OpenOffice
(without regard to version and platform),
all Russian characters are wrong.
Comment 1 pavel 2003-05-29 23:41:45 UTC 
Can you provide sample document for us to test?
Does it work with original version of OOo?
Comment 2 Unknown 2003-05-30 19:14:26 UTC 
Created attachment 6554 [details]
Example sdw file
Comment 3 pavel 2003-05-30 19:16:41 UTC 
This file does not work in StarOffice 6.0 either. Reassigning to sw
component.
Comment 4 h.ilter 2003-06-02 11:26:06 UTC 
HI->ES: As far as I know you are able to handle with russian characters.
Comment 5 eric.savary 2003-06-03 09:52:47 UTC 
Sorry, but the characters are also wrong in StarOffice 5.2 on Win2000.
May be a font and/or encoding problem.
Can you still display correctly this document in SO 5.2?
Comment 6 Unknown 2003-06-03 13:32:09 UTC 
Created attachment 6623 [details]
Snapshot Win95
Comment 7 Unknown 2003-06-03 13:34:32 UTC 
Created attachment 6624 [details]
Snapshot Win98
Comment 8 Unknown 2003-06-03 13:35:23 UTC 
Created attachment 6625 [details]
Snapshot WinNT
Comment 9 Unknown 2003-06-03 13:40:46 UTC 
I've checked the document again
in StarOffice 5.2 on Win95, Win98,
WinNT4.0 (all Czech versions) 
and Linux (Mandrake 9.1).
The document is OK. I append snapshots.
Comment 10 eric.savary 2003-06-03 14:46:44 UTC 
Ok, I still cannot reproduce it on my machine but I now know what happend.
It's not a OOo bug but a "faked" Unicode implementation in SO 5.2.
The .sdw format does not save Unicode characters but fakes them when a
native font exist on the system. It does not save any endoing information.
Now, OOo and SO are Unicode compatible and can't display the
characters of those sdw documents because of this missing encoding
information.

Result: you won't be able to load correctly Russian (and I think in
general east european) documents made with SO 5.2 in OOo.

Workaround: to "rescue" your work anyway:
- open the doc in SO 5.2 and save them as RTF
OR
- open the doc in SO 5.2 
- copy the text
- paste it in OOo as RTF ("Edit - Paste Special - RTF")
Comment 11 urmasd 2013-09-21 10:32:53 UTC 
This bug has to be reopened as Staroffice 5.2 cannot be used in Windows XP and higher, and OO.o still cannot import such documents properly.