Issue 16442 - greek letters in French corrupted through saving
Summary: greek letters in French corrupted through saving
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Math
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1 Beta2
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Assignee: michael.ruess
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Reported: 2003-07-04 11:26 UTC by cgay
Modified: 2013-08-07 14:56 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description cgay 2003-07-04 11:26:00 UTC 
Hello,
OO.o is great, thanks a lot !!!

Here is a small defect I found on both 1.0.3.1 and 1.1beta2,
which is important for scientists.
This happens if the French version is installed,
it disappears if I add the US English package
(at least on 1.1beta2, I haven't tested on 1.0.3.1).

In French, greek letters are typed with accents in the formula editor,
for instance %OM\'EGA (where \'E means capital E acute)
When you save that under SXW, close OOo and reopen it,
it has become OMEGAA (% has gone, acent has gone, additional A).

Of course, as a result, OMEGAA appears in clear in the text
instead of the greek letter.

Suggestion :
- force english spelling for greek letters
in future language versions of the formula editor
(ask three different French people, they'll give you
three different spellings for the same greek letter
if you allow accents)
- fix bug.

Thanks again !
Cyprien.
Comment 1 michael.ruess 2003-07-07 09:09:56 UTC 
Cyprien,

could you please check this again? This issue occurs with OO 1.0.x,
but should be already fixed in OO 1.1 Beta. Also, I wonder where you
got a french version of OO 1.1Beta2...
Feel free, to re-open the issue, if you problem definitely occurs in
1.1beta2.
Comment 2 cgay 2003-07-07 13:55:59 UTC 
[Ooops, that was indeed not a French version of 1.1beta2, 
I must have mixed up with 1.0.3.1 I have on another machine, sorry].

Further testing seems to indicate that the problem occurs 
when the % of the greek letter is just after a space character. 
If there is no such (unnecessary) space character, everything is all
right.
This occurs when the document is viewed with 
a French version of 1.0.x (I tested 1.0.1 and 1.0.3.1), 
no matter whether the document was initially created 
with 1.1beta2 or 1.0.3.1 or 1.0.1

Maybe it could be possible to automatically remove 
unnecessary space characters when saving under 1.1 
to ensure compatibility with 1.0.x ?
(automatically unless the user chooses to keep spaces for some
reason).

Thanks for all what you do !
Cyprien.
Comment 3 michael.ruess 2003-07-11 13:25:21 UTC 
The problem in deed is fixed with OO 1.1 Beta. OO 1.0.3 still has this
and it won't be fixed there anymore. Sorry.