Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 69270
German Umlauts in postgresql table mangled
Last modified: 2013-08-07 15:45:17 UTC
I access a table in a postgresql database via the unixODBC driver. Some cells in the table contain values with german Umlauts (ä,ö,ü....). When i use the datasource with OOo 2.0.3, than the Umlauts geht mangled (seems they are represented as a "double-character"). When accessing the postgresql table with other tools like knoda, rekall or pgaccess, the characters are displayed correctly. All OOo components (Writer, Base, Calc) show invalid characters. Unfortunately unlike in version 1.1.x of OOo, in the 2.x there is no "Character Set" option in the datasource dialog any more. Just to be sure: i speak from the content of a cell, not the row headers!
After a long journey through the options in base i found the character set option. Not very user friendly, but existent.
clu->rkollien: 1. does that fix your problem? 2. if you miss any info in the help or find dialogues not good usuable or pretty hidden, please write issues / feature enhancements for such cases to improve the oo (it will also help others) thx
1. Yes, this solves my problem. 2. Now in 2.0.4 i found the "characterset" keyword ("Zeichensatz" in the german translation). Now this is ok too. Great work at all.