Issue 43654

Summary: unicode pasted as escape codes instead of actual characters
Product: General Reporter: hcy <hisraeli>
Component: codeAssignee: AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status: CONFIRMED --- QA Contact:
Severity: Trivial    
Priority: P3 CC: issues, ldd
Version: OOo 2.0Keywords: Hebrew, needmoreinfo
Target Milestone: AOO Later   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux, all   
Issue Type: DEFECT Latest Confirmation in: ---
Developer Difficulty: ---
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Description hcy 2005-02-28 08:19:51 UTC 
When I copy a block of hebrew text in gedit and then paste it in the new OOo
2.0, it shows up as escape codes instead of the actual characters, like:

u05d5\u05b7\u05bd\u05d9\u05b0\u05d4\u05b4\u05d9\u05be\u05e2\u05b6\u05a5\u05e8\u05b6\u05d1

The same text, when pasted into the old OOo (1.2) appears fine.

Sample text file included.
Comment 1 hcy 2005-02-28 08:20:57 UTC 
Created attachment 23098 [details]
sample hebrew text to illustrate problem
Comment 2 jogi 2005-02-28 12:28:34 UTC 
not my area
Comment 3 jogi 2005-02-28 12:29:12 UTC 
code sub cat.
Comment 4 jogi 2005-02-28 12:30:28 UTC 
Keyword "Hebrew"
Comment 5 thorsten.martens 2005-04-06 13:42:47 UTC 
TM->ES: Please have a look. Seems not to be UNIX related. Doesn´t look good on
Win too.
Comment 6 eric.savary 2005-05-08 22:33:49 UTC 
ES->DVO: as described.
Comment 7 openoffice 2005-05-11 17:27:58 UTC 
dvo: I am having trouble reproducing this on Win... Which applications were used?
Comment 8 openoffice 2005-05-11 17:35:38 UTC 
dvo: I can't reproduce this on m90 on Linux either...
Comment 9 openoffice 2005-05-13 11:21:30 UTC 
dvo: Now working on Linux with m97 and gedit 2.6.1, and I still can't reproduce
this.

dvo->hcy, es: Which versions of OOo and gedit did you test this with?
Is there any additional trick I should be aware of?
Comment 10 andreas.martens 2005-05-25 13:52:01 UTC 
Considering the effort, the priority, the risk and our resource planning I've to
retarget this issue to OOo Later.
Comment 11 lddubeau 2006-09-13 03:47:26 UTC 
I have the same problem when I copy and paste Chinese from gedit 2.14.4 to
oowriter version 2.0.4RC1. That is, instead of showing the Chinese text,
oowriter shows a series of unicode escapes (\u....\u...., etc.)

Further observations:

1. If I drag and drop the text from gedit to oowriter, the text pastes correctly
in oowriter, ie. it shows up as Chinese rather than escapes.

2. I can copy and paste Chinese from Firefox to oowriter without any problem.

3. If I copy and paste Chinese text from gedit to Firefox and then from Firefox
to oowriter, there is no problem.
Comment 12 lddubeau 2008-01-05 21:12:22 UTC 
Just a note to report that I can no longer reproduce this problem in OO 2.3.0. 
Cutting and pasting Chinese from gedit to oowriter now works without problem.

Perhaps it should be closed?
Comment 13 Rob Weir 2013-07-30 02:14:41 UTC 
Reset assignee on issues not touched by assignee in more than 2000 days.