Issue 59917 - Missing charset CP737
Summary: Missing charset CP737
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Base
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.0.1
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial with 2 votes (vote)
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Reported: 2005-12-31 13:55 UTC by ekarak
Modified: 2013-02-07 22:39 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Example dbf file with memo (443 bytes, application/octet-stream)
2008-01-04 14:29 UTC, ododos 		no flags Details
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Description ekarak 2005-12-31 13:55:22 UTC 
OObase (and ANY other database connectivity layer I know of) lacks support for
the "CP737" character set (DOS/OS2 codepage for Greek) which is needed to read
legacy greek .DBF (dBase/Clipper/xBase) databases. CP737 is still wildly in use
(due to millions of DOS apps still out there).
Searching through the source tree I found IBM's ICU which contains CP737
mappings to Unicode, but I couldn't locate what to fiddle to get things working.

Merry christmas and a happy new year!
Comment 1 simos.bugzilla 2005-12-31 20:07:04 UTC 
Could you please attach a short test file (.DBF) that uses the CP737 encoding?
This would help to test any solutions.

If you can create such a DBF file now, it would be good to add fields with the
Greek alphabet in capitals, so that it helps non-Greek developers.

Thank you!
Comment 2 marc.neumann 2006-01-02 11:12:34 UTC 
Hi,

I reassign this enhancement to the User Experience team for evaluating.

Bye Marc
Comment 3 ododos 2008-01-04 14:29:15 UTC 
Created attachment 50665 [details]
Example dbf file with memo
Comment 4 ododos 2008-01-10 09:56:01 UTC 
I attached a zip file with a dbf file along with the required memo file, encoded
to the specified cp737 codepage. As mentioned in the oo.org forum topic
http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=1181 , the
codec is already there for Writer but not for Base and Calc.