Issue 5726 - OpenOffice incorrectly opens StarOffice 5.2 document with cyrillic characters
Summary: OpenOffice incorrectly opens StarOffice 5.2 document with cyrillic characters
Status: CLOSED WONT_FIX
Alias: None
Product: Calc
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.0.0
Hardware: PC All
: P3 Trivial with 1 vote (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: oc
QA Contact: issues@sc
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Reported: 2002-06-11 16:37 UTC by egle
Modified: 2009-08-11 11:20 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Developer Difficulty: ---

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Staroffice 5.2 document with cyrillic characters. (31.50 KB, text/plain)
2002-06-11 16:38 UTC, egle 		no flags Details
Screenshot of StarCalc 5.2 with .sdc document with cyrrilic letters (19.78 KB, application/octet-stream)
2003-06-08 19:13 UTC, egle 		no flags Details
Screenshot of OOo 1.1 beta2 with same document - cyrillic are displayed uncorrectly :( (70.35 KB, application/octet-stream)
2003-06-08 19:15 UTC, egle 		no flags Details
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Description egle 2002-06-11 16:37:15 UTC 
The document was created with StarOffice 5.2 on Windows, it contains cyrillic
characters. OpenOffice opens this document incorrectly.

Tested on windows and Lynux.

The document is attached.
Comment 1 egle 2002-06-11 16:38:21 UTC 
Created attachment 1922 [details]
Staroffice 5.2 document with cyrillic characters.
Comment 2 oc 2002-07-04 15:43:08 UTC 
Will be fixed in one of the next versions (>643g)
Comment 3 thorsten.ziehm 2003-05-20 16:17:59 UTC 
This task is fixed or worked in OOo 1.1 beta2.
Comment 4 thorsten.ziehm 2003-05-20 16:35:39 UTC 
closed ...
Comment 5 egle 2003-06-08 19:10:14 UTC 
This bug isn't fixed in OOo 1.1 beta2 - I'm attaching screenshots of
this document in StarCalc 5.2 for Windows and in OpenOffice 1.1 beta2
for Linux. You will see the differences - in OOo cyrillic symbols are
displayed incorrectly :(

Btw, same problems occure when opening StarWriter documents - should I
report another bug on "word processor" component ?

Please, fix this bugs before 1.1 final, OOo (StarOffice6) should
import correctly documents of previous versions.
Comment 6 egle 2003-06-08 19:13:02 UTC 
Created attachment 6731 [details]
Screenshot of StarCalc 5.2 with .sdc document with cyrrilic letters
Comment 7 egle 2003-06-08 19:15:59 UTC 
Created attachment 6732 [details]
Screenshot of OOo 1.1 beta2 with same document - cyrillic are displayed uncorrectly :(
Comment 8 oc 2003-06-10 15:06:55 UTC 
Sorry, but there was a mistake in my earlier evaluation. This issue is
not fixable, there is only a workaround available.

Here an excerpt from issue 15050 for Writer (same is valid for Calc):
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It's not a OOo bug but a "faked" Unicode implementation in SO 5.2.
The .sdw format does not save Unicode characters but fakes them when a
native font exist on the system. It does not save any encoding
information.
Now, OOo and SO are Unicode compatible and can't display the
characters of those sdw documents because of this missing encoding
information.

Result: you won't be able to load correctly Russian (and I think in
general east european) documents made with SO 5.2 in OOo.

Workaround: to "rescue" your work anyway:
- open the doc in SO 5.2 and save them as RTF
OR
- open the doc in SO 5.2 
- copy the text
- paste it in OOo as RTF ("Edit - Paste Special - RTF")
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Comment 9 oc 2003-06-10 15:07:30 UTC 
Closed because could not be fixed