Issue 41734 - incorrect RTF export of special characters (UTF)
Summary: incorrect RTF export of special characters (UTF)
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 40971
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: save-export (show other issues)
Version: 680m74
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: michael.ruess
QA Contact: issues@sw
URL:
Keywords: oooqa
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2005-01-31 15:30 UTC by stmatth
Modified: 2005-03-14 09:14 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
Latest Confirmation in: ---
Developer Difficulty: ---

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Test document (6.01 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2005-01-31 15:31 UTC, stmatth 		no flags Details
Test document saved as RTF (1.98 KB, text/rtf)
2005-01-31 15:32 UTC, stmatth 		no flags Details
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Description stmatth 2005-01-31 15:30:37 UTC 
Hi,   
  
saving a document with special characters in RTF gives an RTF file where the  
characters appear as two funny characters when I try to reopen it. For  
example, Ä comes out as Ä German documents are completely unreadable. 
  
It's the same when opening with Oo 1.9.74, MSWord, Kword.  
 
thanks 
Stephan
Comment 1 stmatth 2005-01-31 15:31:29 UTC 
Created attachment 22038 [details]
Test document
Comment 2 stmatth 2005-01-31 15:32:12 UTC 
Created attachment 22039 [details]
Test document saved as RTF
Comment 3 stmatth 2005-03-12 17:24:07 UTC 
Additional info: The bug appears when openoffice is started with the language 
setting LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 which is the default for Fedora Core 3. 
 
When I set LANG=de_DE, then I can save RTF with intact Umlaut. 
 
So there remains a problem that the RTF export does not handle the Language 
setting properly for UTF.
Comment 4 caiot1 2005-03-13 19:49:02 UTC 
Hi, I can't reproduce it.
Can you download the beta or a recent version (1.9.79 and up) and try again?

I'm using 1.9.84 and I could save as rtf and open in OOo and other programs
without any kind of problem.
Comment 5 stmatth 2005-03-14 07:46:41 UTC 
Hi, 
 
I'm using 1.9.79 now (which I believe is identical to the official 2.0beta?), 
but the problem remains.  
 
Further info: Somebody in the mailing list said that he can open my 
rtftest.odt document and save it as .rtf without problem with Oo1.9.79 under 
Windows (note: my problem occurs under linux). But my rtftest.rtf opens wrong 
for him. 
 
So: 
- it does not occur under windows 
- it does not occur under Fedora Core 3 with LANG=de_DE 
- it does happen under FC3 with LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 (the default) on my computer 
 
I don't know if anybody else has tried the same language setting. Or different 
languages. 
 
Is it a problem that Oo doesn't like UTF? 
 
Or is the problem specific to my computer? I'm willing to try anything, but I 
have no idea what setting could be responsible here. I'm certainly not aware 
that I have made any changes to my system that could be responsible, it seems 
quite standard FC3. 
 
Thanks 
Stephan
Comment 6 michael.ruess 2005-03-14 09:14:08 UTC 
The original problem has already been fixed (see issue 40971). The still
remaining problem regarding export of UTF is already tracked in issue 43933.
Though that one is about Clipboard, it also has its origin in the RTF interface.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 40971 ***
Comment 7 michael.ruess 2005-03-14 09:14:46 UTC 
Closing duplicate.