Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 107946
German umlauts destroyed in WORD95 document
Last modified: 2010-01-04 12:59:10 UTC
The latest version of writer saves files in the word-format (97-2003) correctly. However, if these files are opened, edited and saved in the word-format again, the German umlauts will be replaced by other characters (e.g. ﾄöü ﾄﾖﾜ). This problem occurs only with the Linux version 3.1.1, the previous versions and Windows versions are not affected.
Created attachment 66848 [details] Writer - German umlaut
Reproducible with "Unbenannt 1.doc" "Ooo 3.2.0 RC1 WIN XP DE-multilingual version German UI activated [OOo320m8 (Build 9472)]"! Steps to reproduce: 0. open new "Unbenannt 1.doc" 1. Save as .odt 2. Save as WORD95 .doc and close 3. open with MS WORD VIEWER everything looks fine (so save-export seems ok) 4. close 6. Open with OOo Expected: äöü ... Actual: ﾄﾖﾜ ... For me that's only reproducible with sample document and WORD95 format, not with own new WRITER document and / or WIRD97 format. @michael_maurer: It seems you attached a WORD95 document (Word 6.0)? Why did you report "97-2003"?
The format used is the Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP format. I have not tested the Word95 or Word 6-format. I have been using Writer since 2002 under MS Windows and changed to Linux (OpenSuse) in late 2007. The effect occurred first when I opened an existing document, which was created with OOo 2.4.1 and in which all umlauts were destroyed when I saved the file. Unfortunately, this effect occurs with new files as well.
Created attachment 66899 [details] Testfile destroyed German umlauts
> The format used is the Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP format. @michael_maurer: No! Pls. open sample document "Unbenannt 1.doc" with a text editor, you will see "Microsoft Word 6.0-Dokument" in it, what means "WORD98". And my OOo suggests to save it (again) as WOR95. That seems to mean that there is something wrong with your UI (document type does not match with type in UI)? What ever that might have to do with the reported problem
Created attachment 66910 [details] Sample Document
Have you opened the uploaded pdf? It shows how I save the files and the selected format, as well as the result when I open the same file with Writer under Linux again. However, I have just opened the file with my Notebook (using OOo 3.1.1-Build 9420) under Vista and can confim the following: 1. When I open the uploaded file, the file type is the Word 97-2003 format. 2. When I save the file (again) the proposede format is the Word95 format.
One final remark: You are perfectly right. All files saved with Writer (3.1.1) under Opensuse 11.2 will be saved in the Word95 format, although the selection is Word 97/2000/XP (please see Test Dokument.pdf). All files saved with previous versions were saved in the correct format (Word Document 8 9) when the Word 97/2000/XP format was selected. The German characters will not be destroyed in the odt-format, but it is impossible to save files with umlauts in the Word 97/2000/XP format. I hope this helps.
@ rainerbielefeld If you confirm a problem please set the issue to NEW @ michael_maurer where do you get the version of OpenOffice.org from? From the OpenSuse Repository?
@mechtilde: Pls. read the useful hints in "An issue's life cycle"! It seems that currently we don't even know whether this issue is under OOo's responsibility, so I doubt that your decision to changed status was wise. You didn't mention how YOU reproduced the issue? Can you confirm the poblem with your Linux version and a newly created document? Or only with the sample document, that might be damaged? I will reset this issue to UNCONFIRMED on 12.01.10 if we won't get a confirmation that the problem exists for native OOo and with any new document.
Dear all, the version I use comes with the OpenSuse 11.2 distribution and is updated via /repositories/OpenOffice.org:/STABLE/openSUSE_11.2/. I believe that this is not a major issue since the best solution is always to choose the odt-format. However, the Linux version I use does not support the possibility of saving files in the Word 97/2000/XP format since all files saved in this format effectively will be in the Word95-format instead and all umlauts will be destroyed.
So I guess it seems to be a problem of the version supplied with the distribution the reporter himself tells "However, the Linux version I use does not support the possibility of saving files in the Word 97/2000/XP format since all files saved in this format effectively will be in the Word95-format instead" And this is only a behaviour of the/his Suse version @pmladek Can you confirm?
I think that this is more a duplicate (at least same root cause) of issue 69970. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 69970 ***
Closing duplicate.
If the user uses KDE4, it might be a duplicate of the bugs https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557585 and https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551730 It is fixed in the OOo-3.1.1.5 packages that are available in the OpenOffice.org:STABLE repository, see http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_package_repositories#OpenOffice.org_STABLE