Issue 14935 - Export to DBF does not have 950 code page
Summary: Export to DBF does not have 950 code page
Status: CLOSED NOT_AN_OOO_ISSUE
Alias: None
Product: Calc
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1 Beta2
Hardware: All All
: P4 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: ooo
QA Contact: issues@sc
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Reported: 2003-05-27 06:35 UTC by waiterevo
Modified: 2013-08-07 15:12 UTC (History)
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Description waiterevo 2003-05-27 06:35:00 UTC 
To simulate:

1. New a Calc document
2. Type something
3. Select "Save As"
4. Select "DBF"
5. The dialog box has a list of languages for selection but does not include 
Chinese Traditional (code page 950). In 644_m11 and 644_m4, we can select code 
page 950.
Comment 1 frank 2003-05-27 10:22:32 UTC 
Hi Eike,

could you have a look at this one please ?

Should it be possible to select asian codepages for DBF Files, is this
in the specifications for DBase ?

Thanks

Frank
Comment 2 ooo 2003-05-27 18:25:35 UTC 
We don't offer multibyte encodings for dBase anymore.
Reason: automatic field width detection wouldn't match real field
content's length, and entries would be truncated. An extensive check
needs to be implemented that takes the encoding into account. This
enhancement is definitely nothing for OOo1.1 anymore, I therefore set
the target to OOo2.0
Comment 3 ooo 2003-09-10 14:39:36 UTC 
Developer notes: later?
Comment 4 oc 2003-09-22 11:23:36 UTC 
According to the OpenOffice.org roadmap
(http://tools.openoffice.org/releases) this issue was retargeted to
OOo Later.
Comment 5 ooo 2007-06-29 13:14:04 UTC 
As of OOo2.2 multi-byte encodings are supported, see issue 72457. However, only
IANA registered encodings and character sets are valid to use in database
context. Code page 950 seems not to be among them, see also
http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets
Comment 6 ooo 2007-06-29 13:14:24 UTC 
Closing.