Issue 57501

Summary:	NO limit to filename extensions for text encoded
Product:	General	Reporter:	esperantisto <gdkbnx>
Component:	ui	Assignee:	AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	Minor
Priority:	P4	CC:	elish, issues
Version:	OOo 2.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows, all
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Latest Confirmation in:	4.1.0-dev
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description esperantisto 2005-11-08 09:30:33 UTC

When I want choose the "Text encoded" file type in the file open dialog of 
Writer, I can see only files with the .txt name extension. This is very 
inconvenient as text files may come with virtually any extension (for example, I 
often I need to process .dsl files that are dictionary sources for the program 
Lingvo in UTF-16LE). My suggestion is that files with all extensions appear in 
the file open dialog when "Text encoded" selected.

Comment 1 michael.ruess 2005-11-08 11:06:37 UTC

Framework issue, relates to FileOpenDialog.

Comment 2 mci 2005-11-09 20:48:54 UTC

Hi esperantisto, 
thanks for using and supporting OpenOffice.org...

Hmmm, 
did you think of such files like 
*.sx*, *.od*, *.jpg, *.gif, *.bmp, *.pdf, *.dxf, *.zip, *.rar, *.iso, *.bz2,
*.tar, *.exe, *.lzw, *.raw, *,doc, *.xls, *.ppt, *.png, *.mpg, *.avi, *.mov,
*.obj, *.pcx, *.eps, *.ogg, *.mp3, *.wav, *.tmp, *.ace, *.r01, *.001, *.FLT,
*.DEV, *.PHX, *.RZR, *.rpm, *.deb, *.ccd, *.img, *.sub, *.scr, *.zoo, *.wmf,
*.tiff, *.mpeg, *.divx, *.xvid, *.wmv, *.ps, *.au, *.gz and many other file formats?

Anyway...
reassigned to requirements...

Maybe there's a way to realize this... (???)

Comment 3 esperantisto 2005-11-10 06:40:56 UTC

Hi, mci!

I perfectly understand your point. But Microsoft Word DOES allow me to choose 
ANY file extension for text encoded and this is convenient. OOo insists on .txt 
only, and that's quite irritating.

Comment 4 ace_dent 2008-05-16 01:41:25 UTC

OpenOffice.org Issue Tracker - Feedback Request.

The Issue you raised is currently assigned to 'Requirements' pending review, but
has not been updated within the last 2+ years. Please consider re-testing with
one of the latest versions of OOo, as the problem(s) may have already been
addressed. Either use the recent stable version:
http://download.openoffice.org/index.html
or consider trying the new OOo 3 BETA (still in testing):
http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/
 
Please report back the outcome so this Issue may be Closed or Progressed as
necessary - otherwise it may be Resolved as Invalid in the future. You may also
wish to search for (and note) any duplicates of this Issue that may have
advanced further by checking the Issue Tracker:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/query.cgi
 
Many thanks,
Andrew
 
Cleaning-up and Closing old Issues as part of:
~ The Grand Bug Squash, pre v3 ~
http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/announcementbeta.html

Comment 5 esperantisto 2008-05-16 06:47:41 UTC

The issue is still there in OOo 3.0 beta. Please, re-open it.

Comment 6 Edwin Sharp 2014-03-04 13:25:40 UTC

Word 2010 has filter "Recover Text from Any File (*.*)" which shows the dsl text file.
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