Issue 18819

Summary: Calc do not have Chinese language support in importing dbf
Product: Calc Reporter: jefftong <jeff>
Component: codeAssignee: AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status: CONFIRMED --- QA Contact:
Severity: Trivial    
Priority: P4 CC: issues, jeongkyu.kim
Version: OOo 1.1 RC3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Latest Confirmation in: ---
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here is an example of how Chinese characters show in a dbf file. none

Description jefftong 2003-08-29 16:11:03 UTC 
Calc could open dbf normally but it is lack of Chinese language (big5) support.
The dialog box of importing dbf even do not have Chinese language to choose. 

In fact, I have to open those dbf files with Excel before handle it in Calc. It
make me cannot replace Excel with Calc completely. Please add this support in
the future.
Comment 1 jefftong 2003-08-29 16:13:04 UTC 
Created attachment 8880 [details]
here is an example of how Chinese characters show in a dbf file.
Comment 2 frank 2003-09-01 11:51:52 UTC 
Hi Bettina,

a similar Issue is 14935 which deals with the export.

Frank
Comment 3 bettina.haberer 2003-09-01 12:29:33 UTC 
Hello Falko, this issue is a CJK-relevant one.
Comment 4 falko.tesch 2003-10-06 10:26:16 UTC 
We need Unicode support for our dbf import/export filter.
Comment 5 falko.tesch 2003-10-06 10:26:33 UTC 
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Comment 6 bettina.haberer 2003-12-05 18:08:59 UTC 
Hello Niklas, please give approval for this evaluated OO.o 2.0 flagged
issue. 
If you confirm with the target OO.o 2.0, then please keep it on your
owner (or the owner of the concerning developer) for implementation.
In case you want this issue for 'OOo Later', then please reset the
target milestone. If you decline the issue finally, please set the
resolution to 'Wontfix' (but do not close). In case of 'OOo Later' or
'Wontfix' please reset it on Bettina's owner. Thank you.
Comment 7 Martin Hollmichel 2004-05-28 15:01:11 UTC 
according to the announcement on releases
(http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=releases&msgNo=7503) this issue
will be re-targeted to OOo Later.
Comment 8 jeongkyu.kim 2004-07-05 10:55:01 UTC 
A Korean user reported same issue via discussion forum. DBF import in calc lacks
CJK support. While I was testing the issue, however, I found a sort of work
around - using Dbase data source. Because it supports 'System' charset, I could
import Korean DBF into calc (at least) on Korean Windows.

I'd like to suggest to support 'System' charset first, if it is easier than to
supoort unicode. :-)
Comment 9 Marcus 2017-05-20 11:13:36 UTC 
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".