Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 48268
Saving an UTF-8 encoded could result in losing encoding
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:38:26 UTC
- create an UTF-8 encoded text document with OOo - close the file - drag & drop this file onto OOo from the file system - Writer correctly decodes the txt file due to the byte order mark at the beginning of the txt file. But if saved again (i.e. via CTRL+S) after changes have been made, the UTF-8 encoding is lost. Writer has to set the encoding correctly or has to show the encoding dialog on saving the file.
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Additionally info: fl did a d'n'd from the win explorer to OO.o. Afterwards the txt file obviously was saved in the desktop encoding which is probably win-1252 or something. Not sure whether this is really a 'Defect' or an Enhancement. US->AMA: pls. dispatch. Thx.
It's a good idea and a nice feature request but it's not the goal of a product update OOo2.0.1 to make Writer a perfect editor for plain text files. At the moment the encoding information got lost after opening a file. If you save it without defining the wished encoding we use the default encoding. We should think about it and see if we want to change this for a later OOo version.
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".