Issue 69970

Summary:

WW6: export corrupts diacritical symbols

Product:

Writer

Reporter:

tuharsky <tuharsky>

Component:

save-export

Assignee:

AOO issues mailing list <issues>

Status:

CONFIRMED ---

QA Contact:

Severity:

Trivial

Priority:

CC:

issues, Mathias_Bauer, nesshof

Version:

OOo 2.0.3

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

All

OS:

All

Issue Type:

DEFECT

Latest Confirmation in:

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Developer Difficulty:

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Attachments:

Description	Flags
Original file saved from M$Office97 as Word6.0/95	none
The file opened and then saved from OOo2.0.3 -diacritics is corrupted. File size grows 8x.	none
Screenshot of both files in sk_SK localized environment	none
Additional document to show problem	none

Description tuharsky 2006-09-29 09:31:36 UTC

This issue makes transition from M$Office97 (and older) hard enough, because
there are many documents saved in WW6 format (at least in our office).

Works like this:
The file is opened fine. However saving it corrupts many diacritical symbols.
Issue is very malicious, because user dosen't know about the problem. He can do
much editing on the file, then he saves it and closes OpenOffice.org in good
faith everything is OK. This time, the data are already corrupted and for the
user, impossible to repair. User notices this only the next time, trying to open
the file. Hours of work lost, often the file is in worse condition than it was
before the editing.

This issue could be also MIS-interpreted as IMPORT problem, however data are
corrupted upon SAVING (export filter) in fact.

Comment 1 tuharsky 2006-09-29 09:32:34 UTC

Created attachment 39448 [details]
Original file saved from M$Office97 as Word6.0/95

Comment 2 tuharsky 2006-09-29 09:34:20 UTC

Created attachment 39449 [details]
The file opened and then saved from OOo2.0.3 -diacritics is corrupted. File size grows 8x.

Comment 3 tuharsky 2006-09-29 09:44:31 UTC

Created attachment 39450 [details]
Screenshot of both files in sk_SK localized environment

Comment 4 michael.ruess 2006-09-29 11:10:49 UTC

Created attachment 39451 [details]
Additional document to show problem

Comment 5 michael.ruess 2006-09-29 11:25:10 UTC

MRU->HBRINKM: Also see my additionally attached document. when exporting this to
WW6 format and reopening, many characters turned into Questionmarks.

Comment 6 tuharsky 2006-09-29 11:44:09 UTC

I'm glad to see the issue accepted and designed, however isn't this exactly the
case of (cite):
"User data is corrupted in an easy-to-encounter way;
e.g. saving a document corrupts the resulting file and renders it unusable"
?

Comment 7 tuharsky 2006-09-29 11:54:16 UTC

I'm asking just to clarify things.

IMO, a file corrupted such a way is REALLY no longer useful. Searching the
corrupted symbols and replacing them is usually possible only manually, and this
is so time consuming, that writing the document from the scratch could sometimes
be more viable solution.

What is even worse, experience shows, that users usually DO the manual repare,
save the document again, and inevitably see it corrupted again when they open it
next time. This is quite cruel.

Comment 8 Mathias_Bauer 2007-12-03 17:05:36 UTC

according to release status meeting: target 3.x

Comment 9 Mathias_Bauer 2007-12-03 17:09:57 UTC

Comment 10 Martin Hollmichel 2007-12-06 11:37:37 UTC

@mba: is there an analysis of this error available and also an effort estimation ?

Comment 11 michael.ruess 2010-01-04 08:31:08 UTC

*** Issue 107946 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

Comment 12 michael.ruess 2010-11-15 13:01:38 UTC

*** Issue 115585 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

Comment 13 Marcus 2017-05-20 11:15:32 UTC

Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".